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Black Plant Bug

Capsus ater

2,287Records since 2000
JunePeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May186
Jun1,332
Jul545
Aug34
Sep3
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

GBIF records by month, 2000–2025 (all years combined).

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England177
2Kent England122
3Cambridgeshire England94
4Norfolk England93
5North Yorkshire England74
6Nottinghamshire England70
7Surrey England63
8Oxfordshire England56
9Suffolk England51
10Cumbria England41
11Lincolnshire England38
12Gloucestershire England37
13Highland Scotland35
14Devon England33
15Dorset England32
1,978 England147 Scotland132 Wales30 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,287
Peak month
June
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Capsus ater
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,138
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Capsus
Name with authority
Capsus ater (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10442360 · GBIF 2012021