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Cuckoo-spit Insect

Philaenus spumarius

25,331Records since 2000
JunePeak month
127Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb4
Mar3
Apr43
May6,775
Jun9,608
Jul4,119
Aug2,435
Sep1,053
Oct346
Nov92
Dec21

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England818
2Worcestershire England783
3Devon England664
4Kent England564
5Cambridgeshire England544
6Surrey England476
7North Yorkshire England475
8Oxfordshire England468
9Highland Scotland438
10Norfolk England426
11Somerset England387
12Essex England372
13Cumbria England319
14Gloucestershire England315
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland308
20,632 England2,596 Scotland1,682 Wales282 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 127 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
25,331
Peak month
June
Counties with records
127
Scientific name
Philaenus spumarius
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
23,711
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphrophoridae
Genus
Philaenus
Name with authority
Philaenus spumarius (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1550927 · GBIF 2016038