List of shield bug species of Great Britain
This article contains a list of the species of Shield Bugs recorded in Britain.
The total number of species recorded is 46.
Superfamily Pentatomoidea[]
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Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
Family Acanthosomatidae - The Parent Bugs[]
- Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale — hawthorn shield bug
- Cyphostethus tristriatus — juniper shield bug
- Elasmostethus interstinctus — birch shield bug
- Elasmucha grisea — parent bug
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Family Scutelleridae - The Jewel Bugs[]
- Eurygaster maura -
- Eurygaster testudinaria -
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Family Cydnidae - The Burrower Bugs[]
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- Legnotus picipes -
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- Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) — pied shield bug
- Tritomegas sexmaculatus -
- Adomerus biguttatus -
- Sehirus luctuosus -
- Geotomus punctulatus -
- Cydnus aterrimus -
Family Thyreocoridae - The Ebony Bugs[]
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Pentatoma rufipes
Family Pentatomidae - The Lesser Shield Bugs[]
- Graphosoma italicum -
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- Sciocoris sideritidis -
- Aelia acuminata —
- Carpocoris purpureipennis -
- Dolycoris baccarum — sloe bug/
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- Eysarcoris venustissimus; -
- Peribalus strictus; -
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- Palomena prasina — green shield bug
- Pentatoma rufipes — forest bug
- Piezodorus lituratus — gorse shield bug
- Eurydema ornatum -
- Eurydema oleracea —
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- Picromerus bidens - spiny shieldbug
- Rhacognathus punctatus —
- Troilus luridus -
- Zicrona caerulea —
- Nezara viridula �� southern green stink bug
- Dyroderes umbraculatus -
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- Chlorochroa juniperina (Extinct)
References[]
- ^ Thyreocoris scarabaeoides is called the Negro Bug in Evans, Martin and Roger Edmondson (2005) A photographic guide to the Shieldbugs and Squashbugs of the British Isles (page ref p. 52) and in Southwood, T. R. E. and Dennis Leston (1959) Land and water bugs of the British Isles (page ref p.29)
- ^ http://www.britishbugs.org.uk/systematic_het.html
Categories:
- Lists of insects in the British Isles
- Lists of insects of Great Britain
- Shield bugs