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Stock bug

Coreus marginatus

23,298Records since 2000
MayPeak month
74Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan15
Feb50
Mar381
Apr2,486
May4,921
Jun3,312
Jul2,367
Aug3,445
Sep3,742
Oct1,363
Nov123
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,576
2Kent England1,152
3Norfolk England937
4Surrey England897
5Devon England861
6Cornwall England597
7Suffolk England564
8Oxfordshire England549
9Northamptonshire England485
10Essex England466
11Cambridgeshire England392
12Telford and Wrekin England388
13Dorset England377
14Somerset England273
15Lincolnshire England226
21,951 England1,334 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 74 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,298
Peak month
May
Counties with records
74
Scientific name
Coreus marginatus
Also known as
Dock Bug
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
20,765
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Coreidae
Genus
Coreus
Name with authority
Coreus marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1126211 · GBIF 4388646