Bugs
A list of the Bugs (Order Hemiptera) that have been found in the area. The list is vastly lacking in species, and much work needs to be done to identify the range of bugs that must be present. Appeneded is a list of bugs that have been found in the area, but I have have not personally seen.
| Name | Family | Species | Locality (where found and first records) |
| Heteropteran Bugs | Heteroptera | ||
| Water Scorpion | Nepidae | Nepa cinerea | Wanstead Park Heronry Pond 03/04/2005; Perch Pond 05/10/2014 |
| Lesser Water Boatman | Corixidae | Corixa punctata | Capel Road garden 07/09/2005; Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 |
| Common Backswimmer | Notoectidae | Notonecta glauca ? | Capel Road garden pond 24/02/2011 |
| pond skater | Gerridae | Gerris sp. | Capel Road garden pond 05/05/2010 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Deraeocoris flavilinea ? | By Alders Brook Bridle Path 17/06/2015 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Deraeocoris lutescens | City of London Cemetery 14/03/2015 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Calocoris (Grypocoris) stysi | By Alders Brook Bridle Path 17/06/2015 |
| Striped Oak Bug | Miridae | Calocoris quadripunctatus (striatellus) | Capel Road by Wanstead Flats 07/05/2005; Wanstead Park 17/05/2006; Sewage Works 23/05/2006; Wanstead Flats 15/05/2007 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Liocoris tripustulatus | Capel Road garden 27/09/2004; Wanstead Park 17/08/2006 |
| Common Green Capsid | Miridae | Lygocoris pabulinus | Capel Road garden 18/06/2016 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Lygus (pratensis) ? | Capel Road garden 02/04/2016 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Miris striatus | Wanstead Flats 14/05/2009 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Stenotus binotatus | Wanstead Park 27/06/2007, 09/07/2007 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Notostira elongata | Capel Road garden 21/04/2011; Wanstead Park 19/08/2012 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Dryophilocoris flavoquadrimaculatus | Wanstead Park 17/05/2006; Sewage Works site 23/05/2006; Capel Road garden 31/05/2006; Wanstead Flats 30/04/2014 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Heterotoma planicornis | Capel Road garden 08/07/2007, 15/07/2007 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Harpocera thoracica ? | Wanstead Park 02/05/2015 |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Plagiognathus arbustorum | Capel Road garden 13/07/2007 |
| Common Damsel Bug | Nabidae | Nabis rugosus | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015; 31/03/2016 |
| Assassin Bug | Reduviidae | Reduvius personatus | Capel Road garden 11/07/2008 and 18/05/2014 |
| Birch Catkin Bug | Lygaeidae | Kleidocerys resedae | Lorne Road garden 10/11/2014 (Rose Stephens); City of London Cemetery 18/11/2014 |
| a bug | Lygaeidae | Drymus sylvaticus | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015 |
| a ground bug | Lygaeidae | Rhyparochromus vulgaris |
Capel Road garden 03/04/2008 (1st British Record); wf 04/09/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a shieldbug | Coreidae | Coreus marginatus | Wanstead Flats 27/05/2001; Capel Road garden 24/05/2003; Sewage Works 31/08/2004; Wanstead Park 01/09/2004 |
| a shieldbug | Coreidae | Gonocerus acuteangulatus (?) | Wanstead Park 10/07/2011; Sewage Works 10/07/2011 |
| a bug | Rhopalidae | Myrmus miriformis | Wanstead Park 31/07/2007 |
| a bug | Rhopalidae | Rhopalus sp. ? | Capel Road garden 27/08/2011; City of London Cemetery 05/03/2013 |
| a bug | Rhopalidae | Rhopalus subrufus ? | Capel Road garden 04/06/2016 |
| Pied Shieldbug | Cydnidae | Tritomegas bicolor | Wanstead Park 27/06/2007 |
| Tortoise Bug | Scutelleridae | Eurygaster testudinaria | Wanstead Flats 11/05/2009 |
| Bishop's Mitre | Pentatomidae | Aelia acuminata | Wanstead Park 13/05/2006; Sewage Works 02/06/2006; Wanstead Flats 11/05/2015 |
| Sloe Bug | Pentatomidae | Dolycoris baccarum | Wanstead Park 27/06/2007; Capel Road garden 27/08/2011 |
| Woundwort Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Eysarcoris fabricii | Common in Capel Road garden 02/05/2002 |
| Green Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Palomena prasina | Common: Capel Road garden 18/07/2000; wf 01/05/2002; bw 20/07/2005; Wanstead Park 21/07/2005, |
| Southern Green Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Nezara viridula | Latimer Road garden, 11/10/2018 |
| Forest Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Pentatoma rufipes | Wanstead Flats 25/07/2005; Wanstead Park 06/08/2005; Capel Road garden 01/09/2006 |
| Brassica Bug | Pentatomidae | Eurydema oleracea | Sewage Works 23/05/2006; Wanstead Flats, 26/04/2007; Capel Road garden 10/08/2007 |
| Hawthorn Bug | Acanthosomatidae | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale | City of London Cemetery 10/10/2007; Capel Road garden 23/05/2012 |
| Juniper Bug | Acanthosomatidae | Cyphostethus tristriatus | City of London Cemetery 16/09/2008 |
| Parent Bug | Acanthosomatidae | Elasmucha grisea | Wanstead Park by OW on Alder 06/10/2008 |
| Homopteran Bugs | Homoptera | ||
| a froghopper | Aphrophoridae | Aphrophora alni | Capel Road garden 18/06/2009 |
| Common Froghopper | Aphrophoridae | Philaenus spumarius | Sewage Works Site, 23/06/2018 |
| Rhododendron Leaf Hopper | Cicadellidae | Graphocephala fennahi | Common in City of London Cemetery 30/08/2004; Wanstead Park 07/10/2006 |
| Sycamore Leafhopper |
Cicadellidae | Acericerus heydenii | Wanstead Flats, 18/02/2016 |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Iassus lanio | Common in grassland and gardens |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Mocydiopsis attenuata | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015; Manor Park Cemetery, 28/01/2016 (prf/Rst) |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Alebra albostriella | Wanstead Flats, on oak, 30/09/2014 |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Empoasca vitis ? | Capel Road garden 23/03/2015 |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Eupteryx (florida ?) | Capel Road garden 18/06/2016 |
| Sage Leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Eupteryx melissae | Lorne Road garden, Forest Gate, 02/10/2014 (Rose Stephens); Roding Lane South Allotments 11/05/2015 |
| a planthopper | Delphacidae | Asiraca clavicornis | Sewage Works site 10/03/2015 |
| Aphids | Aphidoidea | ||
| an aphid (on cleavers) | Aphididae | possibly Aphis fabae Aphis fabae | Capel Road garden 29/05/2008 |
| an aphid (on feverfew) | Aphididae | possibly Aphis fabae | Capel Road garden 14/05/2011 |
| Wooly Aphid | Aphididae | Eriosoma (lanigerum ?) | Capel Road garden 28/05/2012 |
| Rose Aphid | Aphididae | Macrosiphum rosae | Capel Road garden 01/04/2014 |
| Nettle Aphid | Aphididae | Microlophium carnosum | Capel Road garden 05/05/2011 |
| Scale Insects | Coccoidea | ||
| a scale insect | Coccidae ? | (unknown species) | by Alexandra Lake 27/05/2001 |
| a mealybug | Pseudococcidae | (unknown species) | Capel Road garden 04/06/2011 |
The following is a list of species that have been found in the area, but I have have not personally seen.
| Name | Family | Species | Locality (where found and first records) |
| Heteropteran Bugs | Heteroptera | ||
| Corixidae | Hesperocorixa sahlbergi | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) | |
| Corixidae | Sigara dorsalis | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) | |
| Corixidae | Sigara falleni | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) | |
| Saucer Bug | Naucoridae | Ilyocoris cimicoides | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) |
| Greater Water Boatman | Notonectidae | Notonecta glauca | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) |
| water bug | Pleidae | Plea minutissima | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) |
| pond skater | Gerridae | Aquarius najas | Wanstead Park Perch Pond, 05/10/2014 (bio-blitz) |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Dicyphus epilobii | Lorne Road 14/10/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a mirid bug | Miridae | Macrolophus rubi | Lorne Road garden, 14/11/2014 (Rose Stephens) |
| a bug | Lygaeidae | Eremocoris fenestratus | City of London Cemetery 12/03/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| a bug | Rhopalidae | Conizus hyoscyami | Lorne Road garden 141128 (Rose Stephens) |
| Turtle Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Podops inuncta | Wanstead Park 22/03/2006 (Rose Stephens) |
| Gorse Shieldbug | Pentatomidae | Piezodorus lituratus | Wanstead Flats 12/04/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Homopteran Bugs | Homoptera | ||
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Euscelis incisus | Manor Park Cemetry, area 75, 25/01/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| a leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Empoasca decipiens | Manor Park Cemetery 03/02/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Ligurian Leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Eupteryx decemnotata | Manor Park Cemetery area H 25/01/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Poplar Leafhopper | Cicadellidae | Zygina nivea | Manor Park Cemetery, 30/01/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| a planthopper | Delphacidae | Stenocranus minutus | City of London Cemetery 12/03/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Aphids | Aphidoidea | ||
| an aphid | Aphididae | Cinara piceae | City of London Cemetery 12/03/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Hairy Willow Bark Aphid | Aphididae | Pterocomma pilosum | Manor Park Cemetery 24/01/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Poplar Bark Aphid | Aphididae | Pterocomma populeum | Manor Park Cemetery 10/02/2016 (Rose Stephens) |
| Name | Species | Locality |
| For Dragonflies click here | Zygoptera | |
| Grasshoppers and Crickets | Orthoptera | |
| Common Green Grasshopper | Omocestulus viridulus | Sewage Works 10/08/01 |
| Common Field Grasshopper | Chorthippus brunneus | SW; COL cemetery |
| Meadow Grasshopper | Chorthippus parallelus | SW; Wanstead Park |
| Long-winged Conehead | Conocephalus discolor | Sewage Works on 10/09/90; Wanstead Flats; Wanstead Park |
| Oak Bush-cricket | Meconema thalassinum | Common on Wanstead Flats |
| Speckled Bush-cricket | Leptophyes punctatissima | Common around Wanstead Park |
| Slender Ground -hopper | Tetrix subulata | In rough vegetation on S. side of Heronry Pond, 24/04/09 |
| Dark Bush Cricket | Pholidoptera griseoaptera | COL; First found in Wanstead Park on 27/06/07 |
| Roesel's Bush-cricket | Metrioptera roeselii | Common on Flats, in Park and in Sewage Works and COL cemetery |
| House Cricket | Acheta domestica | By stables near Sewage Works and in CoL Cemetery. Not heard since 2006 |
| Bugs | Hemiptera | |
| Water Scorpion | Nepa cinerea | In Heronry Pond |
| Water Boatman | Corix punctata | Capel Road garden |
| Striped Oak Bug | Calocoris quadripunctatus | Capel Road by Wanstead Flats |
| a mirid bug | Liocoris tripustulatus | Capel Road garden |
| a mirid bug | Stenotus binotatus | Wanstead Park, 9 June and 27 June 2007 |
| a mirid bug | Sewage Works site | |
| a mirid bug | Heterotoma planicornis | Capel Road garden, 8 July 2007 |
| a mirid bug | Plagiognathus arbustorum (?) | Capel Road garden |
| Shield and Brassica Bugs | Heteroptera | |
| Shield Bug | Coreus marginatus | Capel Road garden, Wanstead Park |
| Shield Bug | Gonocerus acuteangulatus (?) | City of London Cemetery |
| Shield Bug | Myrmus miriformis | Wanstead Park |
| Tortoise Bug | Eurygaster testudinaria | Wanstead Flats on 11/05/09 |
| Bishop's Mitre | Aelia acuminata | Wanstead Park, Sewage Works |
| Sloe Bug | Dolycoris baccarum | Wanstead Park, 27 June 2007 |
|
Woundwort Shield Bug |
Eysarcoris fabricii | Common in Capel Road garden |
| Green Shield-bug | Palomena prasina | Common - col, gdn, wp |
|
Forest Shield Bug |
Pentatoma rufipes | Capel Road garden |
| Brassica Bug | Eurydema oleracea | Wanstead Flats, 26 April 2007 |
| Hawthorn Bug | Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale | City of London Cemetery |
| Juniper Bug | Elasmostethus tristriatus | City of London Cemetery, 16 September 2008 |
| Parent Bug | Elasmucha grisea | Wanstead Park by OW on Alder, 6 October 2008 |
| Homopteran Bugs | Homoptera | |
| Leafhopper | Lassus lanio | Common in grassland and gardens |
|
American Leaf Hopper |
Graphocephala fennahi | Common in City of London Cemetery |
| Beetles | Coleoptera | |
| Lesser Stag Beetle | Dorcus parallelopipedus | Wanstead Park, 5 July 2003 |
| Devil's coach-horse | Ocypus olens | On the Plain in Wanstead Park 23/09/01 |
| Darkling Beetle | Cylindronotus laevioctostriatus (?) | Wanstead Flats on 24 April 2007. |
| Darkling Beetle | Eledona agricola | Capel Road garden, 11 June 2006 |
| Summer Chafer | Amphimallon solstitiale | Wanstead Flats around oaks by Capel Rd. |
| Click Beetle | Athous bicolor (?) | Capel Road garden, 12 June 2006 |
| Soldier Beetle | Cantharis sp. (poss. figurata) | Capel Road garden, 13 June 2006 |
|
Soldier Beetle |
Cantharis sp. (poss. rustica) | Sewage Works site, 2 June 2006 |
|
Soldier Beetle |
Rhagonycha fulva | Wanstead Park |
|
Carpet Beetle |
Anthrenus verbasci | Capel Road house |
|
Malachite Beetle |
Malachius bipustulatus | Sewage Works site |
|
Beetle |
Endomychus coccineus | Wanstead Park |
| Pine Ladybird | Exochomus 4-pustulatus | City of London Cemetery - many on 17/03/09 |
| Orange Ladybird | Halyzia 16-guttata | Capel Road garden |
|
22-Spot Ladybird |
Psyllobora 22-punctata | Capel Road garden |
| 14-Spot Ladybird | Propylea 14-punctata | Capel Road garden 10/08/04 |
| Harlequin Ladybird | Harmonia axyridis | Vey common everywhere |
| 2-Spot Ladybird | Adalia 2-punctata | Common |
|
10-Spot Ladybird |
Adalia 10-punctata | Capel Road garden |
| 7-Spot Ladybird | Coccinella 7-punctata | Common |
| Water Ladybird | Anisosticta 14-punctata | The Forest Pond, Gilbert's Slade, 10 May 2008 |
| Mealworm Beetle | Tenebrio molitor (?) | Capel Road garden |
|
Swollen-thighed Beetle |
Oedemera nobilis | Frequent in Wanstead Park; also in Capel Road gdn, Green Man Roundabout and elsewhere |
| Black-headed Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroa coccinea | Wanstead Park |
| Common Cardinal Beetle | Pyrochroa serraticornis | City of London Cemetery, by the Birches, 13/05/08 |
| a longhorn beetle | Strangalia (Leptura) maculata | Wanstead Park |
|
Wasp Beetle |
Clytus arietis | Sewage Works |
| Rosemary Beetle | Chrysolina americana | On a nettle by Perch Pond, Wanstead Park, 6 October 2008 |
| a flea beetle | Altica sp. | By the Ornamental Waters, Wanstead Park, 18 May 2006 |
| Vine Weevil | Otiorhynchus sulcatus | Capel Road garden, 12 October 2007 |
| Wasps | Hymenoptera - Vespidae | |
|
Hornet |
Vespa crabro | Frequent in Wanstead Park; also Cemetery |
| Common Wasp | Vespula vulgaris | Capel Road garden |
|
a digger wasp |
Family Sphecid Wasps | Wanstead Flats |
| a digger wasp | Ectemnius sp. | Capel Road garden on 9 June 2007; also in Wanstead Park |
| Bees | Hymenoptera - various | |
|
a leaf-cutter Bee |
Megachile sp. | Capel Road garden, 2000 |
| Honey Bee | Apis mellifera | City of London Cemetery, 13 January 2008 |
|
Red-tailed Bumble Bee |
Bombus lapidarius | Wanstead Park |
|
White-tailed Bumblebee |
Bombus lucorum | Wanstead Park; Cemetery |
|
Common Carder Bee |
Bombus pascuorum | Wanstead Park |
|
Buff-tailed Bumble Bee |
Bombus terrestris | Wanstead Flats, 19 April 2006 |
| Wasps | Hymenoptera - various | |
|
a Parasitic Wasp |
Gasteruption jaculator (?) | Capel Road garden |
| an Ichneumon Wasp | Amblyteles armatorius (?) | Capel Road garden, 4 April 2007 |
|
an Ichneumon Wasp |
Ophion luteus (?) | Capel Road garden |
| an Ichneumon Wasp | Pimpla hypochondriaca | Capel Road garden |
| Sawflys | Symphyta | |
| Iris Sawfly | Rhadinoceraea micans | Wanstead Park |
|
a sawfly |
Abia sericea (?) | Capel Road garden |
| Rose Sawfly | Arge orchropus | Capel Road garden |
| a Sawfly | Arge pagana (?) | Capel Road garden, 7 June 2007 |
|
a Sawfly |
Rhogogaster viridis | Wanstead Park, 21 June 2007 |
| a sawfly | unidentified species (?) | Capel Road garden |
| For Moths click here | Lepidoptera |
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| For Butterflies click here | Lepidoptera | |
| Flies | Diptera - various | |
| a caddis fly | Mystacides longicornis | Capel Road garden |
| St. Mark's Fly | Bibio marci | Common in Wanstead Park and on Wanstead Flats |
|
a non-biting midge |
Chironomus plumosus | Wanstead Park |
| a soldier fly | Chloromyia formosa | Wanstead Park |
| a soldier fly | Sargus bipunctatus (?) | The Temple, Wanstead Park |
| Bee-fly | Bombylius sp. | Wanstead Park, 5 April 2008 |
|
horse fly |
poss. Thereva nobilitata | Wanstead Flats |
| a Dolichopod fly | Poecilobothrus nobilitatus | Capel Road garden |
| Hoverflies | Diptera - Syrphidae | |
| a Hoverfly | Melanostoma scalare | gdn?, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Platycheirus clypeatus (?) | gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Chrysotoxum bicinctum | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Chrysotoxum verralli | sw |
| a Hoverfly | Epistrophe eligans | gdn, wf |
| a Hoverfly | Epistrophe nitidicollis (?) | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Episyrphus balteatus | col, gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eupeodes luniger | gdn, wf |
| a Hoverfly | Meliscaeva auricollis | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Scaeva pyrastri | gdn, sw? wf, wp?, |
| a Hoverfly | Sphaerophoria rueppillii | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Sphaerophoria scripta | gdn?, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Syrphus ribesii | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Syrphus vitripennis (?) | gdn, wp? |
| a Hoverfly | Xanthogramma pedissequum | gdn, sw? wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis arbustorum (?) | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis intricarius | wp |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis pertinax | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Eristalis tenax | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Helophilus pendulus | gdn, sw, wp, |
| a Hoverfly | Myathropa florea | gdn, sw, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Pipizella viduata | gdn |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella inanis | gdn, wp? |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella pellucens | wp |
| a Hoverfly | Volucella zonaria | gdn, wp |
| a Hoverfly | Syritta pipiens | gdn |
| Flies | Diptera - various | |
| a Conopid Fly | Sicus ferrugineus | Wanstead Park |
|
Bluebottle |
Calliphora sp. | Capel Road garden, wp |
|
Greenbottle |
Lucilia caesar | Capel Road garden |
|
a Flesh Fly |
Sarcophaga carnaria | wp |
|
a Tachinid Fly |
possibly Tachina fera | wp |
| a Tachinid Fly | unknown species | sw |
| Alderflies,Lacewings, etc. | Neuroptera | |
| an Alderfly | wp | |
| Green Lacewing | family Chrysopidae | Common |
| a Scorpion Fly | Panorpa sp. | wp |