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Plant bug

Heterotoma planicornis

2,971Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May16
Jun473
Jul1,809
Aug365
Sep27
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England276
2Norfolk England143
3Kent England121
4Devon England102
5Cambridgeshire England94
6Oxfordshire England78
7Suffolk England50
8East Riding of Yorkshire England46
9North Yorkshire England44
10Cumbria England43
11Lincolnshire England42
12Cornwall England41
13Warrington England41
14Telford and Wrekin England40
15Peterborough England39
2,785 England81 Scotland92 Wales8 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,971
Peak month
July
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Heterotoma planicornis
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,658
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Heterotoma
Name with authority
Heterotoma planicornis (Pallas, 1772)
Described
1772
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q9291825 · GBIF 2012110