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Large Flax Flea Beetle

Aphthona euphorbiae

1,338Records since 2000
MayPeak month
46Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan70
Feb82
Mar91
Apr139
May191
Jun114
Jul145
Aug182
Sep63
Oct139
Nov48
Dec29

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England212
2Oxfordshire England164
3Cambridgeshire England147
4Essex England66
5Norfolk England51
6Devon England35
7North Lincolnshire England32
8Kent England30
9Suffolk England21
10Powys Wales16
11Dorset England14
12Surrey England13
13North Yorkshire England11
14Worcestershire England11
15Thurrock England10
1,024 England1 Scotland22 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,338
Peak month
May
Counties with records
46
Scientific name
Aphthona euphorbiae
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,033
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Aphthona
Name with authority
Aphthona euphorbiae (Schrank, 1781)
Described
1781
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1313627 · GBIF 4462582