Appearance

Appearance

The body is gray-brown and broadly oval, with scattered coarse black dots. Three faint pale marks sit near the base of the triangular scutellum, and antennal segments three through five are black.

Look-alikes

brown marmorated stink bugHalyomorpha halys

In U.S. photos, the brown marmorated stink bug has conspicuous white bands on its antennae and alternating pale and dark marks around the abdomen. C. putoni has dark outer antennal segments and is known from East Asia.

Why they get mixed up · Both are mottled gray-brown shield bugs.

Where it lives

Range

It occurs in Korea, northern and northeastern China, and the Russian Far East.

Name and classification

About the name

It was also called Eusarcoris putoni or Carbula amurensis.

Conservation

IUCN Red List

NENot Evaluated·Not yet assessed