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Capra's Water Cricket

Velia caprai

2,402Records since 2000
MayPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb44
Mar117
Apr336
May357
Jun266
Jul309
Aug274
Sep333
Oct234
Nov41
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England205
2Northamptonshire England183
3Sheffield England77
4Cumbria England71
5Devon England69
6Fife Scotland67
7Worcestershire England65
8Nottinghamshire England60
9Somerset England52
10Highland Scotland47
11Gwynedd Wales43
12Ceredigion Wales41
13Cambridgeshire England35
14Cornwall England35
15Rotherham England34
1,814 England291 Scotland232 Wales45 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
2,402
Peak month
May
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Velia caprai
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Veliidae
Genus
Velia
Name with authority
Velia caprai Tamanini, 1947
Described
1947
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1030757 · GBIF 4485351