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Large Cinnamon Sedge

Potamophylax latipennis

5,444Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
80Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan30
Feb37
Mar365
Apr776
May589
Jun149
Jul240
Aug361
Sep412
Oct396
Nov282
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England321
2Powys Wales308
3Cumbria England291
4Worcestershire England174
5Lincolnshire England137
6Denbighshire Wales133
7Gloucestershire England127
8Devon England105
9Gwynedd Wales105
10Herefordshire, County of England103
11Somerset England101
12East Riding of Yorkshire England98
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland93
14Dorset England89
15Aberdeenshire Scotland87
3,894 England537 Scotland971 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 80 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,444
Peak month
April
Counties with records
80
Scientific name
Potamophylax latipennis
Group
Caddisflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,424
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Limnephilidae
Genus
Potamophylax
Name with authority
Potamophylax latipennis (Curtis, 1834)
Described
1834
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1924887 · GBIF 5054450