List of shield bug species of Great Britain
This page contains a list of the species of Shield Bugs recorded in Britain.
The total number of species recorded is 44.
Superfamily Pentatomoidea
Family Acanthosomatidae
Family Scutelleridae
- Eurygaster maura
- Eurygaster testudinaria
- Eurygaster austriaca
- Odontoscelis fuliginosa
- Odontoscelis lineola
Family Cydnidae
- Legnotus limbosus
- Legnotus picipes
- Canthophorus impressus
- Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) — pied shield bug
- Sehirus biguttatus
- Sehirus luctuosus
- Geotomus punctulatus
- Cydnus aterrimus
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Family Pentatomidae
- Podops inunctus
- Sciocoris cursitans
- Aelia acuminata — bishop's mitre
- Carpocoris purpureipennis
- Dolycoris baccarum — sloe bug
- Eysarcoris aeneus
- Eysarcoris fabricii
- Holcostethus vernalis
- Neottiglossa pusilla
- Palomena prasina — green shield bug
- Pentatoma rufipes — forest bug
- Piezodorus lituratus — gorse shield bug
- Eurydema ornatum
- Eurydema oleracea — Brassica bug
- Eurydema dominulus
- Eurydema herbaceum
- Picromerus bidens
- Rhacognathus punctatus — heather bug
- Troilus luridus
- Zicrona caerulea — blue bug
- Nezara viridula — southern green stink bug
- Dyroderes umbraculatus
- Jalla dumosa
- Byrsinus flavicornis
- Pitedia juniperana
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)
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