List of shield bug species of Great Britain

This article contains a list of the species of Shield Bugs recorded in Britain.

The total number of species recorded is 46.

 
Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

Family Acanthosomatidae - The Parent Bugs

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Family Scutelleridae - The Jewel Bugs

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  • 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
 
Tritomegas bicolor

Family Cydnidae - The Burrower Bugs

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Family Thyreocoridae - The Ebony Bugs

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Pentatoma rufipes
 
Zicrona caerulea

Family Pentatomidae - The Lesser Shield Bugs

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References

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  1. ^ 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)
  2. ^ "Checklist of UK Heteroptera".