- Source: Gynenica
Gynenica is a genus of stink bug with about fourteen species in the Afrotropical and Oriental regions. It is one of four genera placed in the tribe Lestonocorini along with Lestonocoris, Neogynenica, and Umgababa that occur in Africa and India and feed on plants in the family Acanthaceae. Bugs in the genus have the pronotum tips extended into forward and upward curving spines. The scutellum is longer than broad, the apex with a rounded point and not reaching beyond the middle of the abdomen.
Species in the genus include:
Gynenica affinis Distant, 1880
Gynenica alami Shafee & Azim, 1984
Gynenica basilewskyi Leston, 1953
Gynenica capeneri Leston, 1953
Gynenica carayoni Leston, 1952
Gynenica chinai Schouteden, 1958
Gynenica funerea (Horvath, 1904)
Gynenica ghaurii Mathew, 1980
Gynenica kavirondo Jeannel, 1914
Gynenica malaisi Leston, 1953
Gynenica marginella Dallas, 1851
Gynenica occidentalis Schouteden, 1964
Gynenica rustica Distant, 1899
Gynenica tellini Schouteden, 1905
Gynenica vicaria Linnavuori, 1989