List of shield bug species of Great Britain

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

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)

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