Carpocoris pudicus is a species of shield bug

Shield bug

Pentatomoidea is a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order and, as such, share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts...

 in the Pentatomidae

Pentatomidae

Pentatomidae, Greek pente meaning five and tomos meaning section, is a family of insects belonging to order hemiptera that includes some of the stink bugs and shield bugs. Their antennae are 5-segmented, which gives the family its scientific name. Their bodies are usually shield-shaped...

 family.

Description

The head of each paramere has a single tooth. The abdomen is usually narrower or has the same width than pronotum. The humeral angles of pronotum are rounded, with black spot. Scutellum is weakly convex, without depression.

Distribution

This species is widespread in most of central and southern Europe

Europe

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 (Albania

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, Austria

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, Bulgaria

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, Croatia

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, Czech Republic

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, France

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, Germany

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, Greece

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, Italy

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, Macedonia

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, Romania

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, Northwestern Russia

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, Slovakia

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, Slovenia

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, Switzerland

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, former Yugoslavia

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