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Common Water-boatman

Notonecta glauca

5,622Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
104Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb92
Mar280
Apr601
May749
Jun420
Jul605
Aug565
Sep966
Oct786
Nov315
Dec46

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England1,254
2Norfolk England287
3Cambridgeshire England255
4Lincolnshire England217
5North Yorkshire England183
6Somerset England172
7Suffolk England171
8Nottinghamshire England144
9Kent England121
10Doncaster England120
11Worcestershire England114
12Fife Scotland93
13East Riding of Yorkshire England89
14North Lincolnshire England79
15Bristol, City of England73
4,888 England263 Scotland347 Wales76 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,622
Peak month
September
Counties with records
104
Scientific name
Notonecta glauca
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Notonectidae
Genus
Notonecta
Name with authority
Notonecta glauca Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q266370 · GBIF 2020522