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Green Dock Beetle

Gastrophysa viridula

6,957Records since 2000
MayPeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar61
Apr1,207
May2,619
Jun1,563
Jul643
Aug317
Sep134
Oct30
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England406
2Dorset England332
3Cumbria England221
4Somerset England176
5Oxfordshire England167
6York England167
7Cornwall England157
8Cheshire East England141
9Devon England133
10Surrey England122
11North Yorkshire England114
12Northamptonshire England108
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland97
14Sefton England94
15Stockport England91
5,444 England632 Scotland568 Wales210 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
6,957
Peak month
May
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Gastrophysa viridula
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,706
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Gastrophysa
Name with authority
Gastrophysa viridula (De Geer, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1317165 · GBIF 4460724