Provisional atlas of shieldbugs and allies published

Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) by Peter Hassett, Old Warden Tunnel NR, 21 September 2016

Green Shieldbug (Palomena prasina) by Peter Hassett, Old Warden Tunnel NR, 21 September 2016

A text summary and map is provided for each species. Maps were produced using DMAP for Windows v7.4 and are based on a dataset of 50,000 records collated up to 2014, which formed the basis of the recent IUCN status review (Bantock, T. A review of the Hemiptera of Great Britain: The shieldbugs and allied families (Natural England 2016). Since 2014 one additional species has been added to the British list, the pentatomid Sciocoris homalonotus.

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