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species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

Shield Bugs The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 ...

recorded in Britain. The total number of species recorded is 46.

Superfamily Pentatomoidea

Family
Acanthosomatidae Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named "shield bugs," for which Kumar in his 1979 world revision recognized 47 genera; now this number is 55 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within P ...
- The Parent Bugs

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Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale The hawthorn shield bug (''Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale'') is a common European shield bug. Its chief food is haws, the fruit of the hawthorn tree, but adults can overwinter on a diet of leaves, and individuals can be found on many potential food ...

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hawthorn shield bug The hawthorn shield bug (''Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale'') is a common European shield bug. Its chief food is haws, the fruit of the hawthorn tree, but adults can overwinter on a diet of leaves, and individuals can be found on many potential food ...

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Cyphostethus tristriatus The juniper shield bug (''Cyphostethus tristriatus''), (family: Acanthosomatidae), is a large (9–10.5 mm) green shield bug with distinctive pinkish-red markings on the corium. The bug's traditional foodplant is juniper, with the larvae fe ...

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juniper shield bug The juniper shield bug (''Cyphostethus tristriatus''), (family: Acanthosomatidae), is a large (9–10.5 mm) green shield bug with distinctive pinkish-red markings on the corium. The bug's traditional foodplant is juniper, with the larvae fe ...

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Elasmostethus interstinctus The birch shieldbug (''Elasmostethus interstinctus'') is species of shield bug in the Acanthosomatidae family. Shield bugs are often called "stink bugs" because they excrete a foul smelling liquid that is used to deter predators. Distribution Th ...

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birch shield bug The birch shieldbug (''Elasmostethus interstinctus'') is species of shield bug in the Acanthosomatidae family. Shield bugs are often called "stink bugs" because they excrete a foul smelling liquid that is used to deter predators. Distribution Th ...

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Elasmucha grisea ''Elasmucha grisea'', common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae. The term parent bugs includes also the other species of the genus '' Elasmucha'' and some species of the family Acan ...

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parent bug ''Elasmucha grisea'', common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae. The term parent bugs includes also the other species of the genus '' Elasmucha'' and some species of the family Acan ...

*''Elasmucha ferrugata'' - stained shield bug

Family
Scutelleridae Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a con ...
- The Jewel Bugs

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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 ...

'' - 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 - The Burrower Bugs

*''Legnotus limbosus'' - bordered shield bug *'' Legnotus picipes'' - heath shield bug *''Canthophorus impressus'' - bastard toadflax bug *''

Tritomegas bicolor ''Tritomegas bicolor'', the pied shield bug, is a species of burrowing bug found in Europe. The adult is black and white and long. It is found across North Africa, Europe and Central Asia, although in the British Isles, it becomes rarer towards ...

'' (formerly ''Sehirus bicolor'') — pied shield bug *''

Tritomegas sexmaculatus ''Tritomegas sexmaculatus'' is a shield bug from the genus ''Tritomegas'', which has length of 6–8 mm. Range Shield bugs of the ''Tritomegas sexmaculatus'' species have been observed from the west coast of Europe to Iran Iran, ...

'' - Rambur's pied shield bug *''

Adomerus biguttatus ''Adomerus biguttatus'', also known by its common name cow-wheat shieldbug is a species from the genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as V ...

'' - cow wheat shield bug *''

Sehirus luctuosus ''Sehirus luctuosus'', the Forget-me-not Bug, is a burrowing shieldbug belonging to the family Cydnidae. It is found from Europe to Central Asia.In Central Europe it is widespread and not uncommon. They are found in the Alps on sunny slopes up ...

'' - forget-me-not shield bug *''

Geotomus punctulatus ''Geotomus punctulatus'', also known as the Cornish shieldbug, is a species of burrowing bug in the family Cydnidae, found in Asia and Europe. Description A small black shieldbug, 3.5 mm to 4.5 mm in length, with sparse, long hairs ...

'' - Cornish shield bug *''

Cydnus aterrimus ''Cydnus aterrimus'' is a species of burrowing bug in the family Cydnidae Cydnidae are a family of pentatomoid bugs, known by common names including burrowing bugs or burrower bugs. As the common name would suggest, many members of the group ...

'' - spurge shield bug

Family
Thyreocoridae The Thyreocoridae are a family of shield bugs, known by common names that include negro bugs or ebony bugs. Historically, a few authors have called this family "Corimelaenidae" (e.g.), but the name Thyreocoridae, published in 1843, has nomenclatu ...
- The Ebony Bugs

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Thyreocoris scarabaeoides ''Thyreocoris scarabaeoides'' is a species of shield bug found in Europe. It is small (3–4 mm.), nearly round and dark bronzy coloured. The surface is shining, glabrous and strongly punctured. The antennae are piceous, the scutellum not q ...

'' — scarab shield bug

Family Pentatomidae - The Lesser Shield Bugs

*'' Graphosoma italicum'' - striped shield bug *''Podops inunctus'' - turtle shield bug *''Sciocoris cursitans'' - sandrunner *'' Sciocoris sideritidis'' - ironwort shield bug *''

Aelia acuminata ''Aelia acuminata'', common name Bishop's Mitre, is a species of ''shield bug'' belonging to the family Pentatomidae. Distribution This species is present in most of Europe, in North Africa and in Northern Asia (excluding China). Habitat These ...

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Carpocoris purpureipennis ''Carpocoris purpureipennis'' is a species of shield bug of the family Pentatomidae, subfamily Pentatominae. Subspecies * ''Carpocoris purpureipennis purpureipennis'' (De Geer, 1773) * ''Carpocoris purpureipennis sexmaculatus'' Péneau, 1921 ...

'' - black-shouldered shield bug *''

Dolycoris baccarum ''Dolycoris baccarum'', the sloe bug or hairy shieldbug, is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae. Distribution and habitat This species is widespread in most of Europe and Central Asia. These shield bugs mainly inhabit hedgerows ...

'' — sloe bug/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 The green shield bug (''Palomena prasina'') is a European shield bug species in the family Pentatomidae. The name might equally apply to several other species in the tribe Nezarini, or if referred-to as a "green stink bug", it might more appropri ...

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Pentatoma rufipes The forest bug or red-legged shieldbug (''Pentatoma rufipes'') is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae, commonly found in most of Europe. It inhabits forests, woodlands, orchards, and gardens. Description ''P. rufipes'' can reach a ...

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forest bug The forest bug or red-legged shieldbug (''Pentatoma rufipes'') is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae, commonly found in most of Europe. It inhabits forests, woodlands, orchards, and gardens. Description ''P. rufipes'' can reach a ...

*'' Piezodorus lituratus'' — gorse shield bug *''

Eurydema ornatum ''Eurydema ornata'' is a species of shield bug in the family Pentatomidae. Description ''Eurydema ornata'' can reach a length of . The body has gray or bright red colors, with black markings. Sometimes it shows the red patches coloured white and ...

'' - red cabbage bug *'' Eurydema oleracea'' — cabbage bug *'' Eurydema dominulus'' - scarlet shieldbug *'' Picromerus bidens'' - spiny shieldbug *'' Rhacognathus punctatus'' — heather bug *''

Troilus luridus ''Troilus luridus'', also known as the bronze shieldbug, is a species of Pentatomidae, shield bug found in Europe. It was Species description, first described by the Danish zoology, zoologist Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. Shieldbugs are gene ...

'' - bronze shield bug *''

Zicrona caerulea ''Zicrona caerulea'', the blue shieldbug, is a species of bug of the family Pentatomidae. Description ''Zicrona caerulea'' can reach an adult size of about . The body is uniformly metallic blue-green (hence the Latin name ''caerulea'', meaning ...

'' — blue shield bug *'' Nezara viridula'' —

southern green stink bug ''Nezara viridula'', commonly known as the southern green stink bug (USA), southern green shield bug (UK) or green vegetable bug (Australia and New Zealand), is a plant-feeding stink bug. Believed to have originated in Ethiopia, it can now be f ...

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Dyroderes umbraculatus ''Dyroderes umbraculatus'' is a shield bug belonging to the family Pentatomidae, subfamily Pentatominae. The species was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. The genus ''Dyroderes'' has one living representative, but ''BioLib' ...

'' - white-shouldered shield bug *''Jalla dumosa'' - Jalla's shield bug *''Byrsinus flavicornis'' - burrower shield bug *'' Chlorochroa juniperina'' (Extinct)

References

{{Fauna of Great Britain Shield bugs, Britain

Shield bugs The Pentatomoidea are a superfamily of insects in the Heteroptera suborder of the Hemiptera order. As Hemiptera, they share a common arrangement of sucking mouthparts. The roughly 7000 species under Pentatomoidea are divided into 21 families (16 ...

Shield bugs

Superfamily Pentatomoidea

Family Acanthosomatidae Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named "shield bugs," for which Kumar in his 1979 world revision recognized 47 genera; now this number is 55 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within P ... - The Parent Bugs

Family Scutelleridae Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a con ... - The Jewel Bugs

Family Cydnidae - The Burrower Bugs

Family Thyreocoridae The Thyreocoridae are a family of shield bugs, known by common names that include negro bugs or ebony bugs. Historically, a few authors have called this family "Corimelaenidae" (e.g.), but the name Thyreocoridae, published in 1843, has nomenclatu ... - The Ebony Bugs

Family Pentatomidae - The Lesser Shield Bugs

References

Family
Acanthosomatidae Acanthosomatidae is a family of Hemiptera, commonly named "shield bugs," for which Kumar in his 1979 world revision recognized 47 genera; now this number is 55 genera, with about 200 species, and is one of the least diversified families within P ...
- The Parent Bugs

Family
Scutelleridae Scutelleridae is a family of true bugs. They are commonly known as jewel bugs or metallic shield bugs due to their often brilliant coloration. They are also known as shield-backed bugs due to the enlargement of the thoracic scutellum into a con ...
- The Jewel Bugs

Family
Thyreocoridae The Thyreocoridae are a family of shield bugs, known by common names that include negro bugs or ebony bugs. Historically, a few authors have called this family "Corimelaenidae" (e.g.), but the name Thyreocoridae, published in 1843, has nomenclatu ...
- The Ebony Bugs