The following are lists of insects of Great Britain. There are more than 20,000

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Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...

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Dragonflies and damselflies (Odonata)

List of Odonata species of Great Britain There are 57 recorded species of Odonata in Great Britain, Britain, made up of 21 damselfly, damselflies (suborder Zygoptera) and 36 dragonfly, dragonflies (suborder Anisoptera). Of these, 42 species (17 damselflies and 25 dragonflies) are resid ...

Grasshoppers & crickets (Orthoptera), earwigs (Dermaptera) and cockroaches (Dictyoptera)

* List of grasshoppers, crickets and allied insects recorded in Britain

Mayflies (Ephemeroptera)

List of mayflies of the British Isles This list of the mayflies recorded in the British Isles follows Macadam, with nomenclature and taxonomy according to Kluge. There are 51 species of mayfly known to occur in the British Isles, distributed among ten families. ;Ameletidae *'' Ameletu ...

Flies (Diptera)

* List of conopid fly species of Great Britain *

List of hoverfly species of Great Britain The following is a list of hoverfly (Syrphidae) species recorded in Great Britain. Alan Stubbs and Steven Falk, in their 1983 work ''British Hoverflies'', divided the family into subfamilies and tribes. These subdivisions are now believed to be, ...

List of soldierflies and allies of Great Britain The following is a list of the larger Brachycera recorded in Britain, this includes the soldierflies and their allies. Family Xylophagidae * '' Xylophagus ater'' - common awl-fly * '' Xylophagus cinctus'' - red-belted awl-fly * '' Xylophagus j ...

Beetles (Coleoptera)

* List of beetles of Great Britain

Bees, wasps, ants and related insects (Hymenoptera)

List of bees of Great Britain This article contains a list of bees of Great Britain. The following species are all within the superfamily Apoidea. Family ''Colletidae'' Genus ''Colletes'': plasterer bees * ''Colletes cunicularius'', vernal colletes bee or spring mining-b ...

List of wasps of Great Britain This article contains a list of wasps of Great Britain. The following species are of the order Hymenoptera and suborder Apocrita that is neither a bee nor ant. Family Dryinidae Family Embolemidae * ''Embolemus ruddii'' Family Bethylida ...

List of ants of Great Britain This is a list of ants of Great Britain, including endemic and introduced species. Compared with much of the rest of Europe, Great Britain has a smaller number of ants. The size and diversity of ant species in any area is largely determined by the ...

List of sawflies of the British Isles A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby uni ...

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera)

* List of butterflies of Great Britain *

List of moths of Great Britain In excess of 2400 species of moth have been recorded in Great Britain. This page provides a link to detailed lists of these moths by family. Macromoths * Hepialidae * Cossidae * Zygaenidae * Limacodidae * Sesiidae * Lasiocampidae * Saturniidae ...

True Bugs (Hemiptera)

List of shield bugs recorded in 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 Family Acanthosomatidae - The Parent Bugs *'' Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale'' — hawthorn sh ...

List of aquatic heteropteran bugs recorded in Britain This is a list of aquatic heteropteran bug species recorded in Britain. Family Nepidae * ''Nepa cinerea'' * '' Ranatra linearis'' Family Corixidae * '' Micronecta scholtzi'' * '' Micronecta griseola'' * '' Micronecta minutissima'' * '' Mic ...

List of heteropteran bugs recorded in Britain __NOTOC__ This is a list of the heteropteran bugs recorded from Britain: Cimicomorpha Cimicoidea Anthocoridae = Anthocorinae= Acompocoris * Acompocoris alpinusSouthwood & Leston (1959), chapter VII * Acompocoris pygmaeus Anthocoris * Anth ...

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