harlequin bug in British English
noun
a brightly coloured heteropterous insect, Murgantia histrionica, of the US and Central America: a pest of cabbages and related plants: family Pentatomidae
harlequin bug in American English
US
a black-and-red, hemipterous stink bug (Murgantia histrionica) that feeds on cabbages and related plants
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