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Plantain Weevil

Mecinus pascuorum

1,803Records since 2000
JunePeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan43
Feb66
Mar45
Apr36
May413
Jun581
Jul272
Aug119
Sep51
Oct18
Nov33
Dec63

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England69
2Norfolk England63
3Lincolnshire England53
4Cambridgeshire England49
5Essex England37
6Worcestershire England36
7Oxfordshire England35
8Nottinghamshire England33
9Surrey England32
10Brighton and Hove England32
11Suffolk England30
12Swansea Wales27
13Cornwall England24
14Pembrokeshire Wales18
15Sefton England17
1,651 England17 Scotland131 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,803
Peak month
June
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Mecinus pascuorum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,509
Most recorded in
Kent, Norfolk, Lincolnshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Mecinus
Name with authority
Mecinus pascuorum (L.Gyllenhal, 1813)
Described
1813
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9452727