''Eurygaster testudinaria'' is a

Palearctic The Palearctic or Palaearctic is the largest of the eight biogeographic realms of the Earth. It stretches across all of Eurasia north of the foothills of the Himalayas, and North Africa. The realm consists of several bioregions: the Euro-Sibe ...

shieldbug. It occurs in Europe from the Northern Mediterranean to southern Scandinavia, and East through Central Asia to northern China and

Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north ...

. This species is very difficult to differentiate from ''

Eurygaster maura ''Eurygaster maura'', also known as tortoise bug, is a species of true bugs or shield-backed bugs belonging to the family Scutelleridae. Distribution This species is widespread in Europe, but also in large parts of Asia and North America.Ekkeha ...

'' but ''testudinaria'' has a slight central depression at the front of the head. Its colour similarly varies. ''Eurygaster testudinaria'' feeds on

Poaceae Poaceae () or Gramineae () is a large and nearly ubiquitous family of monocotyledonous flowering plants commonly known as grasses. It includes the cereal grasses, bamboos and the grasses of natural grassland and species cultivated in lawns an ...

(grasses).

References

* Ekkehard Wachmann, Albert Melber, Jürgen Deckert: ''Wanzen.'' Band 4: Pentatomomorpha II: ''Pentatomoidea: Cydnidae, Thyreocoridae, Plataspidae, Acanthosomatidae, Scutelleridae, Pentatomidae''. (= Die Tierwelt Deutschlands und der angrenzenden Meeresteile nach ihren Merkmalen und nach ihrer Lebensweise. 81. Teil). Goecke & Evers, Keltern 2008, .

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British Bugs

testudinaria ''Testudinaria'' is a genus of Araneidae, orb-weaver spiders first described by Władysław Taczanowski in 1879. Species it contains nine species: *''Testudinaria bonaldoi'' Herbert Walter Levi, Levi, 2005 – Brazil *''Testudinaria debsmithae ...

Hemiptera of Europe Insects described in 1785 {{Pentatomoidea-stub