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Legnotus limbosus Family: Cydnidae A small black shieldbug with a triangular scutellum and a pale edge to the corium which almost reaches the wing membrane. The rarer L. picipes is similar, although only the basal edge of the corium is pale and the central lobe of the head is the same length as the outer two (clearly shorter in L. limbosus). Associated with bedstraws (Galium) growing on dry friable soils in sunny situations, frequently burrowing into loose soil at the base of the foodplant. Widespread in southern Britain, becoming scarcer further north and absent from Scotland and Ireland. Adult: All year Length 3.5-4.5 mm
	Adult: north London (May 2009) ©Tristan Bantock
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