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Hydrometra stagnorum

3,544Records since 2000
MayPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb17
Mar96
Apr416
May762
Jun490
Jul364
Aug368
Sep480
Oct313
Nov86
Dec28

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England342
2Norfolk England229
3Nottinghamshire England156
4Kent England119
5North Yorkshire England101
6Cambridgeshire England88
7Worcestershire England84
8Somerset England82
9Suffolk England81
10Cumbria England68
11Lincolnshire England67
12Essex England65
13Doncaster England61
14Bedford England58
15Gwynedd Wales55
3,063 England52 Scotland375 Wales46 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,544
Peak month
May
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Hydrometra stagnorum
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,447
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Hydrometridae
Genus
Hydrometra
Name with authority
Hydrometra stagnorum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q936922 · GBIF 2049340