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Spear Thistle Lacebug

Tingis cardui

1,069Records since 2000
JunePeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb8
Mar27
Apr98
May203
Jun205
Jul132
Aug144
Sep28
Oct11
Nov3
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England167
2Highland Scotland54
3Cornwall England31
4Telford and Wrekin England30
5Norfolk England29
6Kent England27
7Essex England23
8Cambridgeshire England21
9City of Edinburgh Scotland20
10Oxfordshire England19
11Nottinghamshire England17
12Gloucestershire England16
13Rutland England16
14Devon England15
15North Yorkshire England14
866 England120 Scotland47 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,069
Peak month
June
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Tingis cardui
Group
True bugs
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Highland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Tingidae
Genus
Tingis
Name with authority
Tingis cardui (Linnaeus, 1746)
Described
1746
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10698691 · GBIF 2020591