SCUTELLERIDAE
(a family of shieldbugs)

Subtaxon				Example images	Rank	Featured subtaxa	No of images	No of ID refs
Eurygaster a genus of shieldbugs					Genus	1 subtaxa	7 images

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Family	SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)
Superfamily	PENTATOMOIDEA (shieldbugs)
Infraorder	Pentatomomorpha (an infraorder of bugs)
Suborder	HETEROPTERA (true bugs)
Order	HEMIPTERA (bugs)
Division	Exopterygota (earwigs, grasshoppers, stoneflies, true bugs, and other insects with wings developing externally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

SCUTELLERIDAE is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Southampton Natural History Society	2007	Shieldbugs of Southampton	http://sotonnhs.org/publications.asp
Life Stages
	Wood, A.		(Life stage illustrations)	www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/idcards/life_stages.html
Regional Guides
()	Hawkins, R.D.	2003	Shieldbugs of Surrey	Surrey Wildlife Atlas Project, 192pp, Surrey Wildlife Trust

SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Pentatomomorpha
(an infraorder of bugs)

HETEROPTERA
(true bugs)

HEMIPTERA
(bugs)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

NBN (data.nbn.org.uk) has a distribution map for SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 21 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SCUTELLERIDAE (a family of shieldbugs)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

SCUTELLERIDAE is also a member of:

Identification Works

Life Stages

Regional Guides

BioImages - Virtual Field-Guide (UK)