Pied
Shieldbug
Tritomegas
bicolor (Linnaeus, 1758)  |
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| The Pied Shieldbug is a well-marked species, which is usually common wherever its favoured host plant is found. Good numbers have been found at locations in Mansfield Woodhouse, Ollerton and Market Warsop, usually on White Dead Nettle Lamium album, where it eats the seeds. A very similar species (Rambur's Pied Shieldbug) has recently colonised the UK, but still found only in Kent, but is probably now north of the River Thames. See differences between the two species below. | ||
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| Separation of Pied Shieldbug and Rambur's Pied Shieldbug | ||
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| Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Tritomegas
bicolor |
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