Chinavia hilare

Found this one crawling up my neighbors house.
This is Chinavia hilare, a common agricultural pest in North America. It looks somewhat like a Southern Green Stink Bug (Nezara viridula), but it's not - one easy character (if small) is that Nezara has little black spots in the basal corners of the scutellum and Chinavia has not. Also Chinavia hilare has much more pronounced black spots in the connexivium.

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Pudding4brains

Lion

Howdy Sharkbayte,
This is some Chinavia sp. - not Nezara. I removed the ID and changes the tags.
Adding a locaion/geotag may very well help someone in identifying to species level. I'm not familiar enough with the Nearctic Pentatomidae to hazard a guess with just the one photo. Posted 8 years ago
1. SHARKBAYTE
  
  Katipo Spider
  
  thank you Pudding I did add the location in hopes that perhaps we can get an id to the species level. thank you for your help! Posted 8 years ago
2. 1. Pudding4brains
    
    Lion
    
    Howdy,
    Okay, thanks for the location - in the eastern US this should hence be Chinavia hilare - see info on BugGuide:
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/9058
    http://bugguide.net/node/view/9066
    I'll ask someone to change the name from Acrosternum to Chinavia Posted 8 years ago
  2. 1. SHARKBAYTE
      
      Katipo Spider
      
      Awesome! I hope that they can change that and correct the info! thanks again! Posted 8 years ago