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Flax Flea Beetle

Longitarsus parvulus

712Records since 2000
MayPeak month
30Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb25
Mar48
Apr132
May133
Jun58
Jul47
Aug93
Sep85
Oct35
Nov10
Dec15

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England109
2Essex England70
3Oxfordshire England40
4Suffolk England39
5Somerset England37
6Lincolnshire England34
7North Lincolnshire England20
8Norfolk England16
9Surrey England14
10Devon England13
11Kent England11
12Powys Wales10
13Doncaster England10
14Gloucestershire England7
15Milton Keynes England6
470 England16 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
712
Peak month
May
Counties with records
30
Scientific name
Longitarsus parvulus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
480
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire, Essex
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Longitarsus
Name with authority
Longitarsus parvulus (Paykull, 1799)
Described
1799
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1949577 · GBIF 5752496