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Parent Bug

Elasmucha grisea

5,884Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
110Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan30
Feb22
Mar91
Apr443
May763
Jun519
Jul737
Aug1,026
Sep1,004
Oct630
Nov217
Dec35

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England543
2City of Edinburgh Scotland307
3Surrey England261
4Norfolk England232
5Kent England230
6Cambridgeshire England166
7Suffolk England134
8Telford and Wrekin England101
9Oxfordshire England93
10Highland Scotland92
11Essex England83
12York England77
13Lincolnshire England68
14East Lothian Scotland66
15Nottinghamshire England63
5,049 England662 Scotland121 Wales40 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 110 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,884
Peak month
August
Counties with records
110
Scientific name
Elasmucha grisea
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,147
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Acanthosomatidae
Genus
Elasmucha
Name with authority
Elasmucha grisea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q778700 · GBIF 4485987