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Southern green stink bug

Nezara viridula

1,512Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb5
Mar15
Apr10
May15
Jun30
Jul111
Aug309
Sep610
Oct335
Nov60
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England80
2Essex England64
3Surrey England60
4Thurrock England30
5Medway England27
6Oxfordshire England17
7Cambridgeshire England13
8Bath and North East Somerset England6
9Bracknell Forest England6
10Norfolk England4
11Suffolk England4
12Gloucestershire England4
13West Berkshire England4
14Wirral England3
15Belfast Northern Ireland3
1,502 England4 Scotland2 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,512
Peak month
September
Counties with records
27
Scientific name
Nezara viridula
Also known as
Southern Green Shieldbug
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,335
Most recorded in
Kent, Essex, Surrey
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Pentatomidae
Genus
Nezara
Name with authority
Nezara viridula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
8

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q600498 · GBIF 2078852