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Short-winged rhopalid

Myrmus miriformis

1,368Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May16
Jun159
Jul511
Aug408
Sep172
Oct14
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England102
2Worcestershire England95
3Suffolk England55
4Norfolk England54
5Kent England39
6Nottinghamshire England32
7Cambridgeshire England31
8Oxfordshire England30
9Essex England30
10Doncaster England26
11Rotherham England26
12Cornwall England25
13Dorset England24
14Thurrock England23
15Telford and Wrekin England23
1,287 England80 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,368
Peak month
July
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Myrmus miriformis
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,305
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Rhopalidae
Genus
Myrmus
Name with authority
Myrmus miriformis (Fallén, 1807)
Described
1807
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10592593 · GBIF 5733462