Belongs within: Pentatominae.
Cuspicona is a genus of shield bugs found in Australasia and insular southeast Asia, most commonly found feeding on Solanaceae or on Eremophila (Gross 1976).
Characters (from Gross 1976): Small to moderate size, rather oval or kite-shaped. In life greenish fading to yellowish or yellowish-brown. Densely punctate on head and pronotum. Head wider across eyes than long, disc flattened or somewhat convex. Pronotum at least twice as wide across lateral angles as long, lateral angles acute, produced into a conical or spinose process or obtuse, anterolateral margins in front of this region straight but diverging posteriorly, marginate or narrowly obtuse. Scutellum triangular, apex narrow or broad, anteriorly only faintly raised. Posterior exterior angles of laterotergites armed with short acute spine or unarmed, those of seventh laterotergites not strongly produced posteriorly. Metasternal-mesosternal keels moderately elevated, their inferior margins only greatly sinuated and apically not or hardly surpassing apex of prosternum. Tibiae generally cylindrical or only flattened apically. Abdomen broadly V- or U-shaped in posterior view.
Cuspicona Dallas 1851G76
|--*C. thoracicaG76 [=Rhynchocoris thoracicaG76; incl. C. xanthochlora Walker 1867D00]
|--C. ampla Walker 1867D00
|--C. auricornis Walker 1867D00
|--C. carneola Van Duzee 1905G76
|--C. cooperi Gross 1975G76
|--C. equisignata Gross 1975G76
|--C. eremophilae Gross 1975G76
|--C. intacta Walker 1868G76
|--C. lateralis Walker 1867D00
|--C. longispina Gross 1975G76
|--C. obesula Gross 1975G76
|--C. ooldeae Gross 1975G76
|--C. privata Walker 1867G76, D00 [=Ocirrhoe privataG76]
|--C. procallosaG76
|--C. rufolinea Walker 1867D00
|--C. simplex Walker 1867G76
|--C. strenuella Walker 1868G76
`--C. uninotata Walker 1868D00
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
[D00] Distant, W. L. 1900. Rhynchotal notes.—IV. Heteroptera: Pentatominae (part) (concluded). Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 7, 5: 420–435.
[G76] Gross, G. F. 1976. Plant-feeding and Other Bugs (Hemiptera) of South Australia. Heteroptera—Part II. Handbook of the Flora and Fauna of South Australia.