title: Elasmostethus
text: # Elasmostethus
  
  Elasmostethus is a genus of shield bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae.
  
  ## Species
  
  Species within this genus include:
  
  * Elasmostethus atricornis (Van Duzee, 1904)
  * Elasmostethus brevis Lindberg, 1934
  * Elasmostethus cruciatus (Say, 1831)
  * Elasmostethus dorsalis Jakovlev, 1876
  * Elasmostethus emeritus (Fabricius, 1775)
  * Elasmostethus humeralis Jakovlev, 1883
  * Elasmostethus interstinctus (Linnaeus, 1758) – birch shieldbug
  * Elasmostethus ligatus (Erichson, 1842)
  * Elasmostethus lineus (Dallas, 1851)
  * Elasmostethus nigropunctatus (Reuter 1881)
  * Elasmostethus minor Horváth, 1899
  * Elasmostethus sastragaloides (Breddin, 1903)
  * Elasmostethus suffusus (Distant, 1900)
  * Elasmostethus taeniolus (Dallas, 1851)
  * Elasmostethus tristriatus (Fabricius, 1787)
  