Found this beauty in Tom's bedroom this morning...
It's not in my Collins and I can't find it amongst the shield bugs on the British Bugs web site.
About two centimetres long with brick red eyes, ocelli and central lobe, and a chequered connexivum like a forest bug (which I knew straight away it wasn't) or a parent bug (which I initially thought it might be). The pronotum has two creamy triangles covered in black spots and a ridge at the back. The tibia on the hind legs don't match anything I can find.
There are flashes of yellow/orange when it flies which you can sort of see in this picture of it opening its wings...
Any ideas?
Dave P.