Abstract:

To explore Pentatomidae insects diversity of Shanxi Province, the paper has studied the variety of the Shanxi Pentatomidae ,basing on the collected specimens and related data, from the perspectives of taxa ,host plants , geographical distribution and faunistic features. The results indicate that Pentatomidae species in Shanxi Province were plentiful with 93 known species belonging to 53 genera and 6 families .They were the whole nation7.7% and 31.18 % and 33.33% respectively .Host plants were important economic crops, fruit trees, environment greening trees. Shanxi Province had high species diversity in geographical location .Species distributed was more in south-Shanxi and lees in north-Shanxi. The distribution was related to topography landforms, climate, and the special nature of Shanxi Province.