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Water Scorpion, Water bug

Nepa cinerea

3,101Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb13
Mar59
Apr240
May488
Jun407
Jul476
Aug431
Sep558
Oct280
Nov42
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England372
2Norfolk England243
3Somerset England145
4Cambridgeshire England136
5Nottinghamshire England100
6North Yorkshire England99
7Doncaster England83
8Isle of Anglesey Wales82
9Kent England73
10Suffolk England69
11East Riding of Yorkshire England58
12Worcestershire England56
13North Lincolnshire England45
14Lincolnshire England41
15York England39
2,579 England93 Scotland324 Wales93 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,101
Peak month
September
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Nepa cinerea
Group
True bugs
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,976
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Nepidae
Genus
Nepa
Name with authority
Nepa cinerea Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q370289 · GBIF 5152456