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Blue Willow Beetle

Phratora vulgatissima

479Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar6
Apr24
May84
Jun89
Jul173
Aug55
Sep21
Oct7
Nov5
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England122
2Lincolnshire England19
3Cambridgeshire England16
4Surrey England16
5Highland Scotland15
6Devon England14
7North Yorkshire England14
8Rotherham England10
9Isle of Anglesey Wales9
10Nottinghamshire England8
11Gwynedd Wales8
12Warrington England8
13Somerset England7
14Cumbria England7
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland7
304 England40 Scotland38 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
479
Peak month
July
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Phratora vulgatissima
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
394
Most recorded in
Dorset
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Phratora
Name with authority
Phratora vulgatissima (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1313090 · GBIF 4459697