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European Tarnished Plant Bug

Lygus rugulipennis

1,566Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan27
Feb22
Mar37
Apr38
May40
Jun109
Jul218
Aug309
Sep322
Oct154
Nov29
Dec24

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England227
2Norfolk England185
3Surrey England113
4Highland Scotland93
5Suffolk England79
6Cambridgeshire England68
7Warrington England54
8Devon England46
9Gloucestershire England43
10Telford and Wrekin England29
11Kent England24
12Oxfordshire England24
13Essex England22
14East Riding of Yorkshire England17
15West Berkshire England15
1,372 England137 Scotland44 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,566
Peak month
September
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Lygus rugulipennis
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,524
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Lygus
Name with authority
Lygus rugulipennis Poppius, 1911
Described
1911
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10571523 · GBIF 2010575