Records of the Zoological Survey of India - A Journal of Indian Zoology

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The pentatomids are commonly known as “shield bugs” or “stink bugs” as their bodies are usually covered by a shield shaped scutellum covering more than half of the abdomen, tibia with weak or no spine, 5 segmented antennae which gives its family name and most of them emit an unpleasant odour, offensive in nature, produced by a pair of glands in the thorax and is released through openings in the metathorax.
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