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Common Green Sawfly

Tenthredo mesomela

1,286Records since 2000
JunePeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May493
Jun741
Jul48
Aug2
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England87
2North Yorkshire England49
3East Riding of Yorkshire England44
4Devon England41
5Kent England39
6Cumbria England32
7Cambridgeshire England28
8Perth and Kinross Scotland25
9Suffolk England24
10Surrey England21
11Worcestershire England21
12Lincolnshire England20
13Northamptonshire England20
14Cheshire East England16
15Cornwall England15
1,070 England107 Scotland59 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,286
Peak month
June
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Tenthredo mesomela
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,077
Most recorded in
Norfolk
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Tenthredinidae
Genus
Tenthredo
Name with authority
Tenthredo mesomela Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14582833 · GBIF 4490553