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Plant bug

Pithanus maerkelii

1,172Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr0
May51
Jun433
Jul459
Aug71
Sep9
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England146
2Norfolk England73
3Highland Scotland70
4Cumbria England41
5North Yorkshire England40
6Kent England37
7Gwynedd Wales31
8Cornwall England30
9Cambridgeshire England28
10Suffolk England28
11Nottinghamshire England27
12Dorset England20
13Isle of Anglesey Wales20
14Powys Wales19
15Carmarthenshire Wales19
882 England131 Scotland150 Wales8 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,172
Peak month
July
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Pithanus maerkelii
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,118
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Norfolk, Highland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Pithanus
Name with authority
Pithanus maerkelii (Herrich-Schaeffer, 1838)
Described
1838
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10632429 · GBIF 2011990