Conchuela Bug, Chlorochroa ligata

This bug is green in BC, transitional in WA, black Cal to Texas and Mexico.

Range: CA-TX-MO-MT-WA / adj. Can. / Mex. (2)
Season: Mostly May-Oct
Food: Their preferred food sources are the fleshy fruits of various plants, especially agarita,
balsam-gourd and mesquite. They also host on sage, yucca, mustards, and prickly pear cactus

Cultivated hosts include: cotton, alfalfa, corn, sorghum, grapes, peas, tomatoes, peppers and peaches.

Life Cycle: Adult conchuela overwinter, coming out in spring to feed, mate, and lay eggs. They are
sometimes very numerous and feed in groups that can include nymphs of all ages as well as adults.
As with most stink bugs, conchuela is primarily a seed feeder preferring leguminous plants over
other hosts. Once mesquite beans dry they move to other more succulent plants including corn, sorghum, and cotton.

Little is known about the biology of this stink bug. What is known about this pentatomid comes from
published information from the early 1900s.


Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Hemiptera (True Bugs, Cicadas, Hoppers, Aphids and Allies)
Suborder Heteroptera (True Bugs)
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Pentatomidae (Stink Bugs)
Subfamily Pentatominae
Tribe Nezarini: (three genera: Chinavia, Chlorochroa, Nezara)
Genus: Chlorochroa (five spp in N America)
Species: ligata (L: "bound, tied," referring to the band)