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title: "Harlequin Bug"
description: "Murgantia histrionica — Owady i pająki. The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica), also known as calico bug, fire bug or harlequin bug, is a black stinkbug of the family Pentatomidae, brilliantly marked with red, orange, yellow and white markings."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/harlequin-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Harlequin Bug

> Murgantia histrionica — Owady i pająki. The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica), also known as calico bug, fire bug or harlequin bug, is a black stinkbug of the family Pentatomidae, brilliantly marked with red, orange, yellow and white markings.

- Scientific name: *Murgantia histrionica*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 20096
- Wikidata: [Q765506](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q765506)
- iNaturalist taxon: [56756](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/56756)

## Names

- en: Harlequin Bug
- es: Chinche arlequín
- fr: Punaise arlequin
- nl: Harlequin cabbage bug

## Countries with the most observations

US (18370), MX (853), HN (27), GT (16), NI (7), BM (5), SV (5), CA (4)

## Summary

The harlequin cabbage bug (Murgantia histrionica), also known as calico bug, fire bug or harlequin bug, is a black stinkbug of the family Pentatomidae, brilliantly marked with red, orange, yellow and white markings. It is a major pest of cabbage and related crops in the Brassicaceae, as well as the ornamental flower cleome throughout tropical and North America, especially the warmer parts of the United States. Nymphs are active during the summer and in the tropics the bug can achieve three to six generations a year. In the northern range there is only one generation annually and the insects overwinter as adults in…

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

## Photo

![Harlequin Bug](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/harlequin-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: Sam Droege · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/330481

## Machine access

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