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European Alder Spittlebug

Aphrophora alni

3,678Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb0
Mar1
Apr0
May41
Jun792
Jul1,013
Aug727
Sep472
Oct206
Nov38
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England336
2Cambridgeshire England110
3North Yorkshire England107
4Norfolk England95
5Kent England86
6Cheshire East England83
7Aberdeen City Scotland81
8Highland Scotland80
9Oxfordshire England69
10Devon England61
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland60
12Cornwall England58
13Surrey England57
14Cumbria England57
15Suffolk England50
2,768 England460 Scotland319 Wales47 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 112 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,678
Peak month
July
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Aphrophora alni
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,225
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphrophoridae
Genus
Aphrophora
Name with authority
Aphrophora alni (Fallén, 1805)
Described
1805
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1355576 · GBIF 2016266