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

Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

Family Acanthosomatidae

• Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale — hawthorn shield bug
• Cyphostethus tristriatus — juniper shield bug
• Elasmostethus interstinctus — birch shield bug
• Elasmucha grisea — parent bug
• Elasmucha ferrugata

Family Scutelleridae

• Eurygaster maura
• Eurygaster testudinaria
• Eurygaster austriaca
• Odontoscelis fuliginosa
• Odontoscelis lineola

Tritomegas bicolor

Family Cydnidae

• Legnotus limbosus
• Legnotus picipes
• Canthophorus impressus
• Tritomegas bicolor (formerly Sehirus bicolor) — pied shield bug
• Sehirus biguttatus
• Sehirus luctuosus
• Geotomus punctulatus
• Cydnus aterrimus

Family Corimelaenidae

• Thyreocoris scarabaeoides — negro bug^[1]

Pentatoma rufipes

Zicrona caerulea

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

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)