List of shield bug species of Great Britain
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Template:Short description This article contains a list of shield bug species of Great Britain.
Forty-six species have been recorded.
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Acanthosomatidae – parent bugs
- Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale – hawthorn shield bug
- Cyphostethus tristriatus – juniper shield bug
- Elasmostethus interstinctus – birch shield bug
- Elasmucha grisea – parent bug
- Elasmucha ferrugata – stained shield bug
Family Scutelleridae – jewel bugs
- Eurygaster maura – scarce tortoise bug
- Eurygaster testudinaria – tortoise bug
- Eurygaster austriaca – graminate shield bug
- Odontoscelis fuliginosa – greater streaked shield bug
- Odontoscelis lineola – lesser streaked shield bug
Family Cydnidae – burrower bugs
- Legnotus limbosus – bordered shield bug
- Legnotus picipes – heath shield bug
- Canthophorus impressus – bastard toadflax bug
- Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) – pied shield bug
- Tritomegas sexmaculatus – Rambur's pied shield bug
- Adomerus biguttatus – cow wheat shield bug
- Sehirus luctuosus – forget-me-not shield bug
- Geotomus punctulatus – Cornish shield bug
- Cydnus aterrimus – spurge shield bug
Family Thyreocoridae – ebony bugs
- Thyreocoris scarabaeoides – scarab shield bug[1]
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Family Pentatomidae – lesser shield bugs
- Graphosoma italicum – striped shield bug
- Podops inunctus – turtle shield bug
- Sciocoris cursitans – sandrunner
- Sciocoris sideritidis – ironwort shield bug
- Aelia acuminata – bishop's mitre
- Carpocoris purpureipennis – black-shouldered shield bug
- Dolycoris baccarum – sloe bug or hairy shield bug
- Eysarcoris aeneus – New Forest shield bug
- Eysarcoris venustissimus syn. Eysarcoris fabricii – woundwort shield bug
- Peribalus strictus syn. Holcostethus vernalis – vernal shield bug
- Neottiglossa pusilla – small grass shield bug
- Palomena prasina – green shield bug
- Pentatoma rufipes – forest bug
- Piezodorus lituratus – gorse shield bug
- Eurydema ornatum – red cabbage bug
- Eurydema oleracea – cabbage bug
- Eurydema dominulus – scarlet shieldbug
- Picromerus bidens – spiny shieldbug
- Rhacognathus punctatus – heather bug
- Troilus luridus – bronze shield bug
- Zicrona caerulea – blue shield bug
- Nezara viridula – southern green stink bug
- Dyroderes umbraculatus – white-shouldered shield bug
- Jalla dumosa – Jalla's shield bug
- Byrsinus flavicornis – burrower shield bug
- Chlorochroa juniperina (extinct)
References
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- ↑ 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 (p. 52) and in Southwood, T. R. E. and Dennis Leston (1959) Land and Water Bugs of the British Isles (p. 29)
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