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Jewel reed beetle

Plateumaris sericea

717Records since 2000
JunePeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar2
Apr13
May281
Jun311
Jul59
Aug9
Sep1
Oct3
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Isle of Anglesey Wales55
2Highland Scotland42
3Argyll and Bute Scotland39
4Worcestershire England33
5Norfolk England27
6Surrey England19
7Cheshire East England18
8Gwynedd Wales18
9Cambridgeshire England15
10Oxfordshire England14
11Dorset England11
12Somerset England11
13Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland11
14Lincolnshire England10
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland10
451 England122 Scotland112 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
717
Peak month
June
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Plateumaris sericea
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
588
Most recorded in
Isle of Anglesey
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Plateumaris
Name with authority
Plateumaris sericea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1316109 · GBIF 5752112