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Hawthorn Shieldbug

Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale

14,450Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan268
Feb332
Mar528
Apr1,460
May1,559
Jun1,144
Jul927
Aug1,879
Sep2,801
Oct1,801
Nov713
Dec261

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,143
2City of Edinburgh Scotland765
3Surrey England479
4Kent England408
5Norfolk England325
6East Riding of Yorkshire England300
7Telford and Wrekin England260
8Highland Scotland247
9Lincolnshire England234
10North Yorkshire England231
11Oxfordshire England207
12Cambridgeshire England202
13Cumbria England189
14Essex England172
15Devon England170
11,472 England2,185 Scotland479 Wales303 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
14,450
Peak month
September
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,819
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Acanthosomatidae
Genus
Acanthosoma
Name with authority
Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1077448 · GBIF 5866246