List of shield bug species of Great Britain explained
This article contains a list of the species of Shield Bugs recorded in Britain.
The total number of species recorded is 46.
- 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 - The Burrower Bugs
Family Pentatomidae - The Lesser Shield Bugs
- syn. Eysarcoris fabricii - woundwort shield bug
- syn. Holcostethus vernalis - vernal shield bug
References
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Notes and References
- 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 (page ref p. 52) and in Southwood, T. R. E. and Dennis Leston (1959) Land and water bugs of the British Isles (page ref p.29)
- Web site: Checklist of UK Heteroptera .