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Cereal leaf beetle

Oulema melanopus

250Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
37Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar11
Apr25
May31
Jun33
Jul48
Aug56
Sep21
Oct5
Nov4
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England43
2Norfolk England30
3Lincolnshire England22
4Cambridgeshire England19
5Highland Scotland17
6Gwynedd Wales10
7Isle of Anglesey Wales9
8Pembrokeshire Wales5
9Doncaster England5
10North Lincolnshire England4
11Dorset England3
12West Berkshire England3
13Ceredigion Wales3
14Scottish Borders Scotland3
15Stirling Scotland3
110 England38 Scotland38 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 37 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
250
Peak month
August
Counties with records
37
Scientific name
Oulema melanopus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
124
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Oulema
Name with authority
Oulema melanopus (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1301591 · GBIF 1048319