Parastrachia japonensis is a species of true bug belonging to the family Parastrachiidae. It is one of the two species in the genus, both from Eastern Asia. Known colloquially as the Japanese Red Bug, it is one of the few species of insect where mothers care for their young, gathering food for them. They exclusively feed on the drupes of the tree Schoepfia jasinodora.
Caenorhabditis japonica is a species of nematodes found in the wild non-parasitically associated with P. japonensis.Description of Caenorhabditis japonica n. sp. (Nematoda: Rhabditida) associated with the burrower bug Parastrachia japonensis (Heteroptera: Cydnidae) in Japan. Karin Kiontke, Mantaro Hironaka and Walter Sudhaus, Nematology, Volume 4, Issue 8, pages 933–941, 2002,
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