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Square Caddisfly

Lepidostoma hirtum

11,212Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan13
Feb29
Mar723
Apr1,991
May1,730
Jun362
Jul566
Aug441
Sep903
Oct963
Nov513
Dec43

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England713
2Devon England658
3Gwynedd Wales627
4Powys Wales617
5North Yorkshire England605
6Cornwall England371
7Highland Scotland305
8Ceredigion Wales287
9Worcestershire England256
10Dumfries and Galloway Scotland224
11Carmarthenshire Wales210
12Pembrokeshire Wales182
13Norfolk England179
14Isle of Anglesey Wales177
15Dorset England164
6,972 England1,251 Scotland2,942 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,212
Peak month
April
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Lepidostoma hirtum
Group
Caddisflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,194
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Lepidostomatidae
Genus
Lepidostoma
Name with authority
Lepidostoma hirtum (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3755074 · GBIF 5054529