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title: "Pentatome noir à croix rouge"
description: "Cosmopepla lintneriana — Insectes et araignées. Cosmopepla lintneriana, the twice-stabbed stink bug, is a species of insect in the family Pentatomidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/fr/animal/twice-stabbed-stink-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Pentatome noir à croix rouge

> Cosmopepla lintneriana — Insectes et araignées. Cosmopepla lintneriana, the twice-stabbed stink bug, is a species of insect in the family Pentatomidae.

- Scientific name: *Cosmopepla lintneriana*
- Category: `insects` (Insectes et araignées)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 15121
- Wikidata: [Q10460549](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q10460549)
- iNaturalist taxon: [82832](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/82832)

## Names

- en: Twice-stabbed Stink Bug
- fr: Pentatome noir à croix rouge

## Countries with the most observations

US (9205), CA (5253)

## Summary

Cosmopepla lintneriana, the twice-stabbed stink bug, is a species of insect in the family Pentatomidae. Cosmopepla lintneriana was first described in 1798 by Johan Christian Fabricius as Cimex carnifex, and then again in 1865 by Thomas Say as Cosmopepla bimaculata. Cosmopepla lintneriana is hosted by a variety of plants, including milk thistle, echinacea, asparagus, oats, mint and goldenrod, and is widespread throughout North America, from Canada to Mexico. Adult C. lintneriana are black with a red, orange, or yellow band across the pronotum and a short red stripe along the midline, and two red spots at the apex of…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmopepla_lintneriana

## Photo

![Pentatome noir à croix rouge](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/twice-stabbed-stink-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: Neville Park · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/221970919

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/twice-stabbed-stink-bug?lang=fr` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).