Nezara viridula
(Linnaeus, 1758) · speciesAt a glance
Sources12 archives
Databases and archives Nezara viridula's data was compiled from.
WikipediaWikimedia Foundation14 languages↗
BioWikiNetmultilingual Wikipediamultilingual↗
GBIFGlobal Biodiversity Information Facility105 034 records↗
ENAEuropean Nucleotide Archive · EMBL-EBI684 eDNA detections↗
BOLD SystemsCentre for Biodiversity Genomics674 specimens↗
LOTUSNatural Products (Wikidata)compounds↗
NPASSNat. Product Activity & Species Sourcecompounds↗
Open Tree of LifeOpenTreephylogeny backbone↗
GoaTGenomes on a Tree · Sangergenome & karyotype↗
NCBIUS National Library of Medicinegenome & karyotype↗
Catalogue of LifeCOLtaxonomy↗
GLoBIGlobal Biotic Interactionsbiotic interactions↗Every layer below draws on the sources above — open one to explore it, or use ← → to move between tabs.
Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it can now be found around the world.Squitier J.M. (1997, updated 2007) »Southern green stink bug« Featured creatures, University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural services. Because of its preference for certain species of legumes, such as beans and soybeans, it is an economically important pest on such crops.Panizzi A.R. et al. (2000). Stink bugs (Pentatomidae). In: Schaefer C.W. & Panizzi A.R. (eds.). Heteroptera of economic importance, str. 421-747. Boca Raton: CRC Press.
No narrative description available for this taxon yet.
No structured trait data for this taxon yet.
Compounds documented for Nezara viridula across natural-product and food-composition databases — not just the ~150 nutrients on a classic label ("nutritional dark matter").
Compound class profile5 classes
Documented compounds39 total
| Compound | Class | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| (1R,4R,5S,6S,9R)-9-bromo-4-[[(1R,4R)-4-bromo-1-hydroxy-3,3-dimethylcyclohexyl]methyl]-6-methyl-11-oxatricyclo[4.3.2.01,5]undecan-10-one | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3R)-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11S,14R)-14-bromo-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadecan-6-yl]-3-hydroxybutyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3R,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3R)-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11S,14S)-14-bromo-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadecan-6-yl]-3-hydroxybutyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3S,4S)-4-[(2E,4E,6S)-6-carboxyhepta-2,4-dien-2-yl]-3-(carboxymethyl)pyrrolidine-2-carboxylic acid | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3S,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3R)-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11R,14R)-14-bromo-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadecan-6-yl]-3-hydroxybutyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3S,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3R)-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11S,14R)-14-bromo-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadecan-6-yl]-3-hydroxybutyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3S,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3R)-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11S,14S)-14-bromo-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadecan-6-yl]-3-hydroxybutyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| (2S,3S,6R)-6-bromo-2-[(3S)-3-hydroxy-3-[(1R,3S,6R,8R,11S)-1,8,13,13-tetramethyl-2,7,12-trioxatricyclo[9.5.0.03,8]hexadec-14-en-6-yl]butyl]-3,7,7-trimethyloxepan-3-ol | present | NPASS | |
| 20-Hydroxyecdysone | present | LOTUS | |
| 3-Aminopentanedioic acid | present | NPASS |
A DNA barcode is a short, standardised stretch of genes that works like a fingerprint — enough to tell one species from another. Below is the molecular trace Nezara viridula has left across the world's sequence archives.
At a glance
★ the standard DNA barcode for this group — the short region actually read to tell this species apart. The rest are extra genes sequenced along the way.
Besides the big genome in the nucleus, cells carry a small, circular loop of DNA inside the cell's energy factories — the mitochondria. It is inherited almost only from the mother and is a leftover from ancient bacteria that moved into the cell. The mitochondrial markers above (ND*, COX, CYTB…) are read from exactly this loop. Outer ring = one strand, inner ring = the other.
The complete instruction manual Nezara viridula carries — its genome. We read it from three angles — how big it is, how the DNA is packed into chromosomes, and how completely it has been sequenced — and explain how to read each value as you go.
Genome sizehow big the whole instruction manual is
Measured in base pairs (bp) — the individual letters of DNA (human ≈ 3.2 Gb, a bacterium a few million). The chart places this genome on a logarithmic scale — each step to the right is ten times bigger — among reference organisms. Across species a bigger genome loosely tracks with larger cells, slower growth and lower-energy lifestyles (powered flight favours small genomes) — yet it does not imply more genes or a more advanced organism (the long-standing C-value paradox).
Chromosomes & ploidyhow the DNA is packaged
2n is the full chromosome count in a normal body cell; n is a gamete (egg or sperm), which carries half. Ploidy is how many complete chromosome sets each cell holds — 2× (diploid) is typical for animals, while higher levels (polyploidy) are common in plants. Click any value below to see the underlying records and sources.
2n 141×GoaT · Animal Chromosome Counts Database
Sequencing statusassembly quality — how far to trust these numbers
Assembly level tells you how finished the sequence is — from fragmented contigs, through scaffolds, up to a full chromosome-level assembly. BUSCO % estimates completeness: the share of genes expected to be present that were actually found. These describe the data quality, not the organism.
How far back this lineage goes — and how we know. Everything here is measured in Ma, short for “mega-annum”: millions of years ago. The chart reads left to right like a calendar of the Earth, from the deep past on the left to today at the right edgetop to bottom like a core drilled through the Earth, from the deep past at the top down to today at the bottom.
At a glance
When this lineage existed
How to read this: the coloured strip along the bottomdown the left is the geological calendar — the standard epochs (Pliocene, Pleistocene…) every museum uses, shown so you can see which chapter of Earth's history this lineage lived in. This lineage is a young one, so the strip is zoomed in to epochs — the finer subdivisions inside a period. The orange marker is the DNA clock: DNA accumulates mutations at a roughly steady rate, so comparing this species' DNA with its relatives estimates when the lineage split off — independently of any fossil.
Record type105 034 records
Origin
Range
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Museum / Voucheredphysical evidence
Backed by a physical specimen — a herbarium sheet, sample or voucher held in a collection. “Vouchered” means supported by material evidence, not just an observation.
Wildobservation + sensor
Human sightings and records, or camera-trap / sensor detections — someone (or a device) saw or captured the species in the wild.
Holding institutions32 of 71 geolocated
Institutions and collections holding physical, vouchered specimens of this species — click a row to fly to it on the map.
| Institution | Specimens |
|---|---|
| MWLRlocation not on record | 301 |
| DPIlocation not on record | 288 |
| New Zealand Arthropod Collectionlocation not on record | 160 |
| Tokushima, JP | 144 |
| Champaign, US | 110 |
| UAclocation not on record | 82 |
| PUC-RSlocation not on record | 76 |
| Australian National Fish Collectionlocation not on record | 68 |
| Tapachula, MX | 62 |
| Auckland, NZ | 57 |
| DOI/NPS, Salem Maritime National Historic Sitelocation not on record | 54 |
| Mississippi State, US | 46 |
| College Station, US | 40 |
| UNICAMPlocation not on record | 32 |
| National Biodiversity Institute, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 31 |
| Provo, US | 31 |
| The University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobagolocation not on record | 31 |
| Museo Entomologico de Leonlocation not on record | 29 |
| Museums Victorialocation not on record | 28 |
| Mangilao, GU | 25 |
| Chicago, US | 20 |
| Montecillo, Texcoco, MX | 19 |
| Sydney, AU | 16 |
| University of Central Floridalocation not on record | 14 |
| National Museums of Kenyalocation not on record | 13 |
| Chiba, JP | 13 |
| Banyoles, ES | 12 |
| Tasmanian Museum & Art Gallerylocation not on record | 12 |
| Helsinki, FI | 11 |
| Western Australian Museumlocation not on record | 11 |
| National Museum of Natural Sciencelocation not on record | 9 |
| Cape Town, ZA | 9 |
| Laboratoire Biométrie et Biologie Evolutive, University Lyon 1location not on record | 8 |
| Rifconlocation not on record | 7 |
| Barcelona, ES | 5 |
| Durban Natural Science Museumlocation not on record | 5 |
| Bonn, DE | 5 |
| Universite Claude Bernard Lyon 1location not on record | 5 |
| Mexico City, MX | 5 |
| Radicondoli, IT | 4 |
| University of Genevalocation not on record | 4 |
| KCMNlocation not on record | 4 |
| San Francisco, US | 4 |
| The University of Hawaii Insect Museumlocation not on record | 4 |
| Natick, US | 3 |
| QVMAGlocation not on record | 3 |
| CIBIOlocation not on record | 3 |
| Tartu, EE | 2 |
| European Distributed Institute of Taxonomy (EDIT)location not on record | 2 |
| South Kensington, GB | 2 |
| Toyota city nature sanctuarylocation not on record | 1 |
| UFPRlocation not on record | 1 |
| Bavarian State Collection of Zoologylocation not on record | 1 |
| Centre for Biodiversity Genomicslocation not on record | 1 |
| Durango, MX | 1 |
| Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad, Costa Ricalocation not on record | 1 |
| SLU Artdatabankenlocation not on record | 1 |
| Puerto Ayora, EC | 1 |
| University of Guelphlocation not on record | 1 |
| NHMOlocation not on record | 1 |
| University Park, US | 1 |
| Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR)location not on record | 1 |
| Lubbock, US | 1 |
| Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiejlocation not on record | 1 |
| KwaZulu-Natal Museumlocation not on record | 1 |
| Sagamihara, JP | 1 |
| Itami Shi, JP | 1 |
| Instituto de Investigación de Recursos Biológicos Alexander von Humboldt (IAvH)location not on record | 1 |
| Nagatoro-machi, Chichibu-gun, JP | 1 |
| La Paz, MX | 1 |
| Nanjing, CN | 1 |
Where the DNA of Nezara viridula was picked up in samples of water, soil or air — nobody saw the organism, only its DNA left behind. A trace is a clue that the species was near, not a confirmed sighting.
Signal
Where its DNA was found
How strong is each trace?
Modelled climatemodelled
How to read this: each dot is one detection of this species' DNA in an environmental sample. The confidence meter weighs how many independent studies and places back up the signal — one detection in one study is a hint; many across several studies is solid. Records dated before 2008 (when eDNA methods began) are treated as likely mislabeled and left off the map.