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Blue Bug

Zicrona caerulea

1,877Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan16
Feb26
Mar73
Apr172
May271
Jun256
Jul406
Aug232
Sep152
Oct68
Nov30
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England267
2Norfolk England74
3East Riding of Yorkshire England59
4Cambridgeshire England58
5Nottinghamshire England56
6Gloucestershire England46
7Kent England43
8Lincolnshire England43
9Surrey England40
10Suffolk England38
11Cumbria England32
12Essex England31
13North Yorkshire England29
14Oxfordshire England26
15Somerset England21
1,714 England54 Scotland100 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,877
Peak month
July
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Zicrona caerulea
Also known as
Blue Shieldbug
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,757
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pentatomidae
Genus
Zicrona
Name with authority
Zicrona caerulea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q19800616 · GBIF 2078942