Chrysocoris stollii

Chrysocoris stollii is a polyphagous species of jewel bugs (Scutelleridae) common in continental Southeast Asia.

General colour of dorsum metallic blue, green, or purple; abdominal venter yellow, broadly margined with purple laterad to spiracles, spiracles II–VII each surrounded by a rounded black spot; pro-, meso- and metepimeroids together with the supracoxal lobes yellow; coxae and trochanters pale yellow, femora with an apical annulus and longitudinal bands black, tibiae and tarsi black.

[1] These insects feed on plant juices from a variety of different species, including some commercial crops such as Pigeon pea, Pongamia, Arecanut, Jatropha etc.

It is distributed all over Indochina and through the Sub-Himalayan Belt it extends up to Pakistan.

Verified records are available from Bangladesh, Cambodia, China, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Pakistan, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam; literature records from Korea, Sri Lanka, the Philippines and Indonesia are erroneous.

a beautiful looking shiny hemipteran polyphagous pest of Southeast Asia