| Troilus luridus | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hemiptera |
| Superfamily: | Pentatomoidea |
| Family: | Pentatomidae |
| Genus: | Troilus |
| Species: | T. luridus |
| Binomial name | |
| Troilus luridus (Fabricius, 1775) [1] |
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Troilus luridus is a species of shield bug.
Troilus luridus is a large predatory shieldbug in the Family Pentatomidae.
The shieldbug has an orange band on the penultimate antennal segment. The legs are brown and the scutellum lacks an orange tip [2].
It is one of four carnivorous species found in Britain of the predominantly phytophagous Pentatomidae insect family.[3]