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[[File:Dichelops_melacanthus_IPM5203045.jpg|250px|thumb|''Dichelops melacanthus'' (click on image to enlarge it)<br/>Author(s): Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services<br/>Source: [http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5203045 IPM Images]]]
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[[File:Dichelops_melacanthus_IPM5203045.jpg|200px|thumb|''Dichelops melacanthus'' (click on image to enlarge it)<br/>Author(s): Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services<br/>Source: [http://www.ipmimages.org/browse/detail.cfm?imgnum=5203045 IPM Images]]]
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<font color="#800000">'''''Dichelops melacanthus'''''</font> Dallas, 1851
<font color="#800000">'''''Dichelops melacanthus'''''</font> (Dallas) - (green-belly stink bug)
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The stink bug damages field crops like maize, soybean or wheat in different parts of South America. Other types of crops may also be attacked.
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This green-belly stink bug is found in South and Central America. It has been regarded as rare before 1990, but has become a serious pest of soybean, maize, and wheat crops, mainly in southern Brazil and Argentina. Other types of crops may also be attacked. The adults and nymphs feed on seedlings and on the developing pods, ears and seed heads of their host plants. In a laboratory choice test, immature soybean pods were the preferred food ([[Neotropical Entomology (2008) 37, 353-360|Chocorosqui & Panizzi, 2008]]).
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See also the closely related ''[[Dichelops furcatus]]'', another green-belly stink bug.
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'''Synonyms:'''<br/>
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''Diceraeus melacanthus''
 
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Dichelops melacanthus (click on image to enlarge it)
Author(s): Natasha Wright, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Source: IPM Images

Dichelops melacanthus Dallas, 1851

This green-belly stink bug is found in South and Central America. It has been regarded as rare before 1990, but has become a serious pest of soybean, maize, and wheat crops, mainly in southern Brazil and Argentina. Other types of crops may also be attacked. The adults and nymphs feed on seedlings and on the developing pods, ears and seed heads of their host plants. In a laboratory choice test, immature soybean pods were the preferred food (Chocorosqui & Panizzi, 2008).

See also the closely related Dichelops furcatus, another green-belly stink bug.

Synonyms:
Diceraeus melacanthus

Vernacular names
• English: Green-belly stink bug
• Português: percevejo-barriga-verde