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Nettle Groundbug

Heterogaster urticae

2,294Records since 2000
JunePeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan36
Feb40
Mar72
Apr94
May263
Jun516
Jul296
Aug392
Sep275
Oct63
Nov44
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England177
2Kent England139
3Norfolk England119
4Oxfordshire England110
5Cambridgeshire England88
6Suffolk England51
7Essex England48
8East Riding of Yorkshire England47
9Gloucestershire England43
10Devon England40
11Herefordshire, County of England40
12Surrey England34
13Lincolnshire England34
14North Yorkshire England32
15Nottinghamshire England30
2,222 England4 Scotland60 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,294
Peak month
June
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Heterogaster urticae
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,101
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Heterogastridae
Genus
Heterogaster
Name with authority
Heterogaster urticae (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q909435 · GBIF 2008338