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title: "Brown Marmorated Stink Bug"
description: "Halyomorpha halys — Owady i pająki. The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/brown-marmorated-stink-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Brown Marmorated Stink Bug

> Halyomorpha halys — Owady i pająki. The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions.

- Scientific name: *Halyomorpha halys*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `urban` (Miasta i ogrody)
- iNaturalist observations: 128174
- Wikidata: [Q3270185](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3270185)
- iNaturalist taxon: [81923](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81923)

## Names

- en: Brown Marmorated Stink Bug
- de: Marmorierte Baumwanze
- es: Chinche marmolada asiática
- fr: Punaise diabolique

## Countries with the most observations

US (59712), DE (9627), CA (9009), FR (7974), IT (6115), AT (5087), ES (1925), JP (1555), CN (1396), TW (1325), CZ (1172), HU (1166)

## Summary

The brown marmorated stink bug (Halyomorpha halys) is an insect in the family Pentatomidae, native to China, Japan, Korea, and other Asian regions. In September 1998, it was collected in Allentown, Pennsylvania, where it is believed to have been accidentally introduced. The nymphs and adults of the brown marmorated stink bug feed on over 100 species of plants, including many agricultural crops, and by 2010–11 had become a season-long pest in orchards in the Eastern United States. In 2010, in the Mid-Atlantic United States, $37 million in apple crops were lost, and some stone fruit growers lost more than 90% of their…

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

## Photo

![Brown Marmorated Stink Bug](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/brown-marmorated-stink-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: Federico Biguzzi · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/146696385

## Machine access

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