''Chlorochroa juniperina'', commonly known as the juniper shield bug, is a European species of

shield bug Pentatomidae is a family of insects belonging to the order Hemiptera, generally called shield bugs or stink bugs. Pentatomidae is the largest family in the superfamily Pentatomoidea, and contains around 900 genera and over 4700 species.Robert ...

in the tribe

Nezarini Nezarini is a tribe of Pentatomidae, stink bugs in the family Pentatomidae. Genera There are at least 21 described genera in the Nezarini including: * ''Acrosternum'' Fieber, 1860 * ''Acrozangis'' Breddin, 1900 * ''Aesula'' Stål, 1876 * ''Ae ...

. ''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. The plate below shows ''C. juniperina - "Pentantoma juniperina'' Linn" (bottom-right) in ''The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands''.Edward Saunders (1892) ''The Hemiptera Heteroptera of the British Islands: a descriptive account of the families, genera, and species indigenous to Great Britain and Ireland : with notes as to localities & habitats.''

References

Dyntaxa ''Chlorochroa juniperina''
/ref> Hemiptera of Europe Bugs described in 1758 Taxa named by Carl Linnaeus Pentatomini {{Pentatomidae-stub