Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea)

468 Invasive Stink Bugs and Related Species (Pentatomoidea)

in this region. The western limit of the distribution of Antestia bugs on coffee seems to be the Katanga
region in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The species includes several forms, collected from
different provinces of South Africa, as well as two well defined subspecies, A. thunbergii bechuana
(Kirkaldy) and A. thunbergii ghesquierei Carayon. A. thunbergii bechuana is the main pest of cof-
fee from Zimbabwe to Central and Eastern Kenya with collections from Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia,
Tanzania, and Kenya. A. thunbergii ghesquierei has a more western distribution from northeastern
DRC to Ethiopia, with specimens collected from these two countries as well as from Burundi, Rwanda,
Uganda, and Western Tanzania (Greathead 1966a).

10.2.3 Antestiopsis intricata (Ghesquière and Carayon)

1936 Antestia faceta: Hargreaves, East Afr. Agr. J., 1: 448–452. (misidentification).
1948 Antestia intricata Ghesquière and Carayon, Rev. Zool. Bot. Afr., 41: 58–59.
1954a Antestiopsis lineaticollis intricata: Carayon, Bull. Sci. Sect. Tech. Agr. Trop., 5: 365–368.
1959 Antestiopsis intricata: Le Pelley, East Afr. High Com., 54 (Nairobi).

AB

C D

E F

FIGURE 10.1 (See color insert.) Antestiopsis spp. adults and immatures. A–C, adults: A, Antestiopsis thunbergii
bechuana (Kiambu Coffea arabica plantation, Kenya, 2015); B, A. facetoides (Kiambu Coffea arabica plantation, Kenya,
2015); C, A. intricata (Foumbot Coffea arabica plantation, Cameroon, 1985). D–F, A. thunbergii bechuana immatures:
D, eggs; E, first instars on egg choria; F, third and fifth instars. Immature stages are from a laboratory colony, icipe, Kenya,

2015. (Images A–B, D–F: Courtesy of Robert S. Copeland, Biosystematic Unit, International Centre of Insect Physiology
      and Ecology, Nairobi, Kenya; C: Courtesy of Régis Babin.)