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The binomial name often reflects limited knowledge or hearsay about a species at the time it was named. For instance Pan troglodytes, the chimpanzee, and Troglodytes troglodytes, the wren, are not necessarily cave-dwellers. Sometimes a genus name or specific descriptor is simply the Latin or Greek name for the animal (e.g. Canis is Latin for ...
This category is for articles which discuss the use of a common (vernacular) name shared by multiple species of insects which do not correspond to a taxon. Pages in category "Insect common names" The following 92 pages are in this category, out of 92 total.
The brown marmorated stink bug is a sucking insect (like all Hemiptera or "true bugs") that uses its proboscis to pierce the host plant to feed. This feeding results, in part, in the formation of dimpled or necrotic areas on the outer surface of fruits, leaf stippling, seed loss, and possible transmission of plant pathogens .
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The pages in this category are redirects from the vernacular ("common") names of insects to the scientific names. These pages are a subset of all redirects to scientific names. To add a redirect to this category, place {{Rcat shell|{{R to scientific name|1=insect}}}} on the second new line (skip a line) after #REDIRECT [[Target page name]]. For ...
Pages in category "Lists of insect species" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 400 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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