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Heather Beetle

Lochmaea suturalis

1,585Records since 2000
MayPeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb6
Mar78
Apr457
May497
Jun176
Jul76
Aug114
Sep75
Oct32
Nov4
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland137
2Sheffield England82
3North Yorkshire England77
4Worcestershire England68
5Cornwall England53
6Norfolk England43
7Argyll and Bute Scotland38
8Rotherham England32
9Aberdeenshire Scotland29
10Cheshire East England28
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland28
12Suffolk England26
13Lincolnshire England25
14Cumbria England25
15Surrey England22
1,068 England360 Scotland91 Wales22 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,585
Peak month
May
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Lochmaea suturalis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,439
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Lochmaea
Name with authority
Lochmaea suturalis (Thomson, 1866)
Described
1866
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1315525 · GBIF 4461356