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Family Cynidae
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Length 3.5-4.5 mm
Description Small black shieldbug with sparse long hairs around the margins of the head, pronotum and forewings. There are often reddish markings on the corium and rear margin of the pronotum.
HabitatAssociated with Ladies Bedstraw Galium verum growing in low sand dunes, this is a rare British species and limitted to a single locality, in Cornwall.
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