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06-04-2011, 05:42 PM
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| | | A couple of shield bugs:
  
I think one is a Hawthorn?
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06-04-2011, 05:46 PM
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| | | Re: A couple of shield bugs:
The first 2 photos do show a Hawthorn Shieldbug. The last I think is one of the rhopalids.
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06-04-2011, 05:48 PM
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Afternoon Hed,
The first two are correct with the unicolourous scutellum. The third is a Rhopalid Bug, Rhopalus subrufus.
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06-04-2011, 05:52 PM
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| | | Re: A couple of shield bugs:
Jason, are Rhopalid Bugs variable at all? I was looking through my guide and it had black eyes which threw me off!
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06-04-2011, 05:56 PM
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Hi James,
I've never seen two Rhopalids with different eye-colours so I assume not, there are however about 10 species of Rhopalid in the UK.
What book was this in?
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06-04-2011, 06:12 PM
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| | | Re: A couple of shield bugs:
A black-eyed rhopalid does sound strange!
Hedera, do feel free to pm me the details of these records for the shieldbug recording scheme. Many thanks, Tristan |
07-04-2011, 09:28 AM
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Insects of Britain and Europe by Michal Chinery.
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