A large (6 - 7.7mm) ground bug with reddish-brown forewings and a pair of semi-circular white spots on the membrane. Eremocoris fenestratus has one large and several smaller spines on the front femora. The stout hairs on the hind tibiae are roughly equal to the tibial width (shorter in E. abietus).

Other Eremocoris.  E podagricus is also present in VC55; it has two spines on the front femora

• One large and several small spines on front femora
• Hind tibial hairs long and more or less equal to tibial width

We recommend that a specimen is examined and the spines on the front femora and the hairs on the hind tibiae are photographed.  The diagnostic features may not be evident in a field photo.  Note habitat and any associated trees.

All year round. 

RDB1 - ref: British Heteroptera checklist 2021, on British Bugs website.  Historically, this species was only known from the Chilterns, associated with Juniper, and was thought to be extinct.  It reappeared in 2010,  under Cypress trees, and was probably imported in nursery stock from the continent. (ref: British Bugs website - link below).  

Occasionally recorded

https://www.britishbugs.org.uk/heteroptera/Lygaeidae/Eremocoris_fenestratus.html