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Marsh Damselbug

Nabis limbatus

1,537Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar1
Apr0
May15
Jun50
Jul349
Aug611
Sep289
Oct45
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England169
2Highland Scotland143
3North Yorkshire England72
4Cambridgeshire England66
5Norfolk England57
6Suffolk England45
7East Riding of Yorkshire England41
8Cumbria England40
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland36
10Cheshire East England31
11Gloucestershire England30
12Oxfordshire England27
13Dorset England27
14Devon England27
15Lincolnshire England24
1,198 England227 Scotland87 Wales22 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,537
Peak month
August
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Nabis limbatus
Group
True bugs
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Nabidae
Genus
Nabis
Name with authority
Nabis limbatus Dahlbom, 1851
Described
1851
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q6956956 · GBIF 4487108