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title: "Knieżyca szara"
description: "Elasmucha grisea — Owady i pająki. Elasmucha grisea, common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/parent-bug
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Knieżyca szara

> Elasmucha grisea — Owady i pająki. Elasmucha grisea, common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae.

- Scientific name: *Elasmucha grisea*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9730
- Wikidata: [Q778700](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q778700)
- iNaturalist taxon: [334551](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/334551)

## Names

- en: Parent Bug
- de: Fleckige Brutwanze
- fr: Punaise grisâtre
- nl: Berkenwants
- pl: Knieżyca szara

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1798), RU (1390), FI (1277), DE (1244), FR (495), DK (469), PL (411), SE (308), NL (264), BE (219), CZ (183), LT (164)

## Summary

Elasmucha grisea, common name parent bug, is a species of shield bugs or stink bugs belonging to the family Acanthosomatidae. The term parent bugs includes also the other species of the genus Elasmucha and some species of the family Acanthosomatidae.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parent_bug

## Photo

![Knieżyca szara](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/parent-bug/medium.jpg)

Photo: Steve Milsom · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/365404357

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/parent-bug?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).