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Saucer Bug

Ilyocoris cimicoides

3,582Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
60Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb19
Mar139
Apr429
May548
Jun374
Jul398
Aug365
Sep625
Oct458
Nov120
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England621
2Norfolk England336
3Somerset England251
4Kent England236
5Cambridgeshire England218
6Suffolk England114
7Lincolnshire England113
8Worcestershire England68
9Bristol, City of England67
10Bedford England63
11Doncaster England53
12North Yorkshire England51
13Nottinghamshire England48
14East Riding of Yorkshire England47
15Essex England42
3,275 England1 Scotland282 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 60 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,582
Peak month
September
Counties with records
60
Scientific name
Ilyocoris cimicoides
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,524
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Naucoridae
Genus
Ilyocoris
Name with authority
Ilyocoris cimicoides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q747337 · GBIF 4485505