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title: "Southern Green Stink Bug"
description: "Nezara viridula — Insecten en spinnen. Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/southern-green-stink-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Southern Green Stink Bug

> Nezara viridula — Insecten en spinnen. Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug.

- Scientific name: *Nezara viridula*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 60777
- Wikidata: [Q600498](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q600498)
- iNaturalist taxon: [141725](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/141725)

## Names

- en: Southern Green Stink Bug
- de: Grüne Reiswanze
- es: Chinche verde africana
- fr: Punaise verte ponctuée
- pt: Maria-fedida

## Countries with the most observations

FR (11832), IT (5963), AT (5782), DE (4844), ES (4133), US (3373), NZ (2707), PT (1701), AR (1660), AU (1375), HU (1187), CH (1113)

## Summary

Nezara viridula, commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it can now be found across the world. Because of its preference for certain species of legumes, such as beans and soybeans, it is an economically important pest on such crops.

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

## Photo

![Southern Green Stink Bug](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/southern-green-stink-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: ivan_humljani · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/22155754

## Machine access

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