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Common Shorebug

Saldula saltatoria

758Records since 2000
JunePeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb3
Mar42
Apr88
May87
Jun214
Jul159
Aug71
Sep31
Oct14
Nov5
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England67
2Cambridgeshire England57
3Isle of Anglesey Wales40
4Northamptonshire England37
5Gwynedd Wales37
6Warrington England36
7Highland Scotland35
8Norfolk England32
9Oxfordshire England20
10Pembrokeshire Wales19
11Ceredigion Wales19
12Devon England14
13Gloucestershire England11
14North Yorkshire England9
15Kent England8
519 England72 Scotland148 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
758
Peak month
June
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Saldula saltatoria
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
754
Most recorded in
Cumbria, Cambridgeshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Saldidae
Genus
Saldula
Name with authority
Saldula saltatoria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10405698 · GBIF 2069283