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.

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



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



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)