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Red meadow plant bug

Leptopterna ferrugata

1,017Records since 2000
JunePeak month
81Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May34
Jun449
Jul419
Aug69
Sep1
Oct1
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland111
2Cumbria England50
3North Yorkshire England39
4Worcestershire England37
5Isle of Anglesey Wales34
6Gwynedd Wales28
7Gloucestershire England22
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland22
9Cornwall England21
10Argyll and Bute Scotland21
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland19
12Suffolk England18
13Orkney Islands Scotland18
14Norfolk England17
15Carmarthenshire Wales13
605 England243 Scotland155 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,017
Peak month
June
Counties with records
81
Scientific name
Leptopterna ferrugata
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
941
Most recorded in
Highland, Cumbria
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Miridae
Genus
Leptopterna
Name with authority
Leptopterna ferrugata (Fallen, 1807)
Described
1807
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10559085 · GBIF 2011227