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Potato Aphid

Macrosiphum euphorbiae

143Records since 2000
JunePeak month
21Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb1
Mar5
Apr22
May33
Jun57
Jul13
Aug1
Sep2
Oct2
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cornwall England57
2Dumfries and Galloway Scotland12
3York England9
4Gloucestershire England4
5East Lothian Scotland4
6Oxfordshire England3
7Norfolk England2
8Surrey England2
9Highland Scotland2
10Somerset England2
11Orkney Islands Scotland2
12Plymouth England2
13Cambridgeshire England1
14Suffolk England1
15Dorset England1
117 England21 Scotland2 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 21 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
143
Peak month
June
Counties with records
21
Scientific name
Macrosiphum euphorbiae
Group
True bugs
Most recorded in
Cornwall
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Aphididae
Genus
Macrosiphum
Name with authority
Macrosiphum euphorbiae (Thomas, 1878)
Described
1878

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3274988 · GBIF 2077747