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Late Needle Fly

Leuctra fusca

2,409Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar40
Apr107
May116
Jun59
Jul198
Aug200
Sep1,012
Oct599
Nov63
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales432
2Gwynedd Wales264
3Ceredigion Wales206
4Carmarthenshire Wales181
5Pembrokeshire Wales137
6Conwy Wales98
7Denbighshire Wales85
8Isle of Anglesey Wales76
9Monmouthshire Wales75
10Highland Scotland63
11Worcestershire England49
12Swansea Wales38
13Wrexham Wales32
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland29
15Herefordshire, County of England23
87 England226 Scotland1,982 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,409
Peak month
September
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Leuctra fusca
Group
Stoneflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,330
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Plecoptera
Family
Leuctridae
Genus
Leuctra
Name with authority
Leuctra fusca (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10560447 · GBIF 2001954