Chlorochroa juniperina

Chlorochroa juniperina, commonly known as the juniper shield bug, is a European species of shield bug in the tribe Nezarini.^[1] C. juniperina is distributed in mainland Europe from France through to Scandinavia, but became extinct in England in 1925 due to the decline of juniper, its host.^[2]

Juniper Shield Bug
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hemiptera
Suborder:	Heteroptera
Family:	Pentatomidae
Subfamily:	Pentatominae
Tribe:	Nezarini
Genus:	Chlorochroa
Species:	C. juniperina
Binomial name
Chlorochroa juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Synonyms
Chlorochroa junipera (Linnaeus, 1758) Chlorochroa juniperina subsp. Juniperina Cimex juniperina Linnaeus, 1758 Pentatoma juniperina (Linnaeus, 1758)

The plate below shows C. juniperina - "Pentantoma juniperina Linn" (bottom-right) in The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands.^[3]

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  Nymph
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  Plate 2 from Saunders (1892)