List of shield bug species of Great Britain facts for kids

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

The total number of species recorded is 46.

Superfamily Pentatomoidea

Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

Family Acanthosomatidae - The 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 - The 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

Tritomegas bicolor

Family Cydnidae - The 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 - The Ebony Bugs

• Thyreocoris scarabaeoides — scarab shield bug

Pentatoma rufipes

Zicrona caerulea

Family Pentatomidae - The 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/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)