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Meadow Plant Bug

Leptopterna dolabrata

4,871Records since 2000
JunePeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr15
May394
Jun2,666
Jul1,415
Aug73
Sep9
Oct6
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England289
2Kent England228
3Norfolk England188
4North Yorkshire England143
5Cambridgeshire England129
6Oxfordshire England120
7Suffolk England109
8Cheshire East England96
9Cumbria England80
10Devon England68
11Nottinghamshire England68
12Surrey England66
13Gloucestershire England66
14Highland Scotland64
15Dorset England61
4,198 England330 Scotland288 Wales29 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,871
Peak month
June
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Leptopterna dolabrata
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,015
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Leptopterna
Name with authority
Leptopterna dolabrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1758538 · GBIF 2011230