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Brown Ant

Lasius brunneus

901Records since 2000
MayPeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb15
Mar33
Apr145
May265
Jun117
Jul109
Aug67
Sep25
Oct34
Nov19
Dec11

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England79
2Worcestershire England64
3Surrey England40
4Oxfordshire England27
5Essex England23
6Gloucestershire England23
7Bath and North East Somerset England18
8Herefordshire, County of England15
9Suffolk England12
10Monmouthshire Wales12
11Kent England5
12Northamptonshire England5
13Bedford England5
14Norfolk England4
15Milton Keynes England4
863 England16 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
901
Peak month
May
Counties with records
27
Scientific name
Lasius brunneus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
796
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Formicidae
Genus
Lasius
Name with authority
Lasius brunneus (Latreille, 1798)
Described
1798
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4042623 · GBIF 5035823