Species Account for Sciocoris cursitans
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Sciocoris cursitans (Fabricius, 1794)
Sand-runner Shieldbug
Heteroptera: Pentatomidae
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Taxonomic group: true bugs (Heteroptera) - Available county data
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Status: NS
Essex RDB: Listed
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Essex Red Data List comment
National trend: None known
Species text
This ground-dwelling shieldbug is especially, but not exclusively, associated with chalk grassland and calcareous sand, and is always found on unshaded, well-drained and friable soils with a rather open vegetation structure and usually with a component of bare ground. Though believed to be phytophagous, there appear to be no certainly identified food plants, and it may be polyphagous. It is the host for the RDB1 tachinid fly Gymnosoma nitens, and both species have nationally important populations in the East Thames Corridor, where the majority of sites are threatened or lost to development. References
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