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Small Yellow Sedge

Psychomyia pusilla

2,644Records since 2000
MayPeak month
61Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar36
Apr289
May493
Jun230
Jul373
Aug216
Sep174
Oct117
Nov38
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England357
2North Yorkshire England297
3Worcestershire England175
4Powys Wales144
5Devon England95
6Dorset England58
7Highland Scotland48
8Monmouthshire Wales47
9West Berkshire England42
10Herefordshire, County of England38
11Sheffield England36
12Scottish Borders Scotland34
13Carmarthenshire Wales31
14Gwynedd Wales30
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland30
1,980 England253 Scotland369 Wales18 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 61 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,644
Peak month
May
Counties with records
61
Scientific name
Psychomyia pusilla
Group
Caddisflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,618
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Psychomyiidae
Genus
Psychomyia
Name with authority
Psychomyia pusilla (Fabricius, 1781)
Described
1781
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2868719 · GBIF 4482345