BioImages (UK) BIOTA (living things) Eukaryota (eukaryotes) ANIMALIA (animals) EUMETAZOA (metazoans) BILATERIA (bilaterally symmetrical animals) PROTOSTOMIA (protostomes) ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders) ARTHROPODA (arthropods) HEXAPODA (hexapods) INSECTA (insects) PTERYGOTA (winged insects) Neoptera (an infraclass of insects) Exopterygota (insects with wings developing externally) HEMIPTERA (bugs) ACANTHOSOMIDAE (a family of phytophagous shieldbugs) Elasmostethus interstinctus (Birch Shieldbug) Record Elasmostethus interstinctus is also a member of: Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

BioImages: The Virtual Field-Guide (UK) Elasmostethus interstinctus (Linnaeus) (Birch Shieldbug) Date: 29 December 1997 OS grid ref: SU56 Lat/Lon: 51° 30' N, 1° 10' W Location: Vice County: Berks, VC22, England Voucher: 29/12/1997[G] (Please quote this in any queries about this record) Stage or state: Imago Record Summary: hibernating under fallen Birch wood Associated organism: under fallen wood of Betula Images macro-photographs << Click on a thumbnail

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