Pentatoma marginata Palisot de Beauvois, 1805: 147.

Rhaphigaster spirans Dallas, 1851: 280 (synonymized by Stål 1872).

Nezara juriosa Stål, 1862: 106 (synonymized by Stål, 1872).

Coloration. Predominantly green. The lateral margins of juga and pronotum are orange, followed by an orange band. Connexivum orange and urosternites green. Black macula in the posterolateral angles of connexivum and urosternite. Head. Margins of juga with a slight concavity in front of eyes, apex of head large and semicircular. Proportion of antennal segments. I<II<III<IV≈V. Rostrum reaches the metacoxae. Proportion of rostral segments. I<II>III>IV. Thorax. Anterolateral margins of pronotum without a submarginal dorsal depression. Hemelytra with costal angles slightly obtuse. Membranal suture convex. Abdomen. Medial spine of third urosternite reaches the metacoxae. Spiracles brown.

Distribution. United States (TX, FL), Mexico, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico*, Guadeloupe, Jamaica, Honduras*, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela.

Families of plants as possible hosts. Asteraceae (Perez-Gelabert & Thomas 2005), Dennstaedtiaceae (Perez-Gelabert & Thomas 2005), Fabaceae (Townsend 1894, as Nezara marginata; Van Duzee 1904, as Nezara marginata; Nuessly et al. 2004; Perez-Gelabert & Thomas 2005), Mimosaceae (Perez-Gelabert & Thomas 2005), Solanceae (Bertels 1962), Tiliaceae (Perez-Gelabert & Thomas 2005), Verbenaceae (Palmer & Pullen 1995).

Comments. A species that has a wide distribution. Often mistaken for C. hilaris and Nezara viridula Linnaeus. But it is distinguished from C. hilaris by the spine reaching the metacoxae and by the connexivum of orange color; and N. viridula by the length of the ostiolar peritreme, that surpasses half the length the evaporatoria.

*Records in Honduras and Puerto Rico from Arismendi and Thomas 2003, Segarra-Carmona et al. 2016