List of shield bug species of Great Britain facts for kids
This article contains a list of the species of Shield Bugs recorded in Britain.
The total number of species recorded is 44.
Contents
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Acanthosomatidae
- Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale — hawthorn shield bug
- Cyphostethus tristriatus — juniper shield bug
- Elasmostethus interstinctus — birch shield bug
- Elasmucha grisea — parent bug
- Elasmucha ferrugata
Family Scutelleridae
- Eurygaster maura
- Eurygaster testudinaria
- Eurygaster austriaca
- Odontoscelis fuliginosa
- Odontoscelis lineola
Family Cydnidae
- Legnotus limbosus
- Legnotus picipes
- Canthophorus impressus
- Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) — pied shield bug
- Sehirus biguttatus
- Sehirus luctuosus
- Geotomus punctulatus
- Cydnus aterrimus
Family Thyreocoridae
- Thyreocoris scarabaeoides — negro bug
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Family Pentatomidae
- Podops inunctus
- Sciocoris cursitans
- Aelia acuminata — bishop's mitre
- Carpocoris purpureipennis
- Dolycoris baccarum — sloe bug
- Eysarcoris aeneus
- Eysarcoris fabricii
- Holcostethus vernalis
- Neottiglossa pusilla
- Palomena prasina — green shield bug
- Pentatoma rufipes — forest bug
- Piezodorus lituratus — gorse shield bug
- Eurydema ornatum
- Eurydema oleracea — Brassica bug
- Eurydema dominulus
- Eurydema herbaceum
- Picromerus bidens
- Rhacognathus punctatus — heather bug
- Troilus luridus
- Zicrona caerulea — blue bug
- Nezara viridula — southern green stink bug
- Dyroderes umbraculatus
- Jalla dumosa
- Byrsinus flavicornis
- Pitedia juniperana
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