Guardian Nature School Team Contact Blog Project Noah Facebook Project Noah Twitter

A worldwide community photographing and learning about wildlife

Join Project Noah!
nature school apple icon

Project Noah Nature School visit nature school

Shieldbug

Notes:

Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale or Elasmostethus interstinctus or ?

Species ID Suggestions



Sign in to suggest organism ID

3 Comments

Maria dB
Maria dB 11 years ago

nice coloring!

Jeannette
Jeannette 11 years ago

No spikes... Maybe it has it's name because it is feeding mainly on Hawthorn berries :)

bayucca
bayucca 11 years ago

I would tend to Elasmostethus interstinctus. Acanthosoma means spiky body and yours has no spikes. But some on the web are in my opinion wrongly IDed!
Please, check the spikes!

Jeannette
Spotted by
Jeannette

Denmark

Spotted on Aug 18, 2012
Submitted on Aug 28, 2012

Related Spottings

Common green shieldbug Mottled Shieldbug Forest shieldbug nymph Forest Shieldbug

Nearby Spottings

Spotting Lesser Redpoll Spotting Cranefly
Noah Guardians
Noah Sponsors
join Project Noah Team

Join the Project Noah Team