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Water Stick Insect

Ranatra linearis

1,036Records since 2000
MayPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar10
Apr83
May206
Jun134
Jul145
Aug138
Sep175
Oct90
Nov15
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England137
2Norfolk England97
3Kent England52
4Cambridgeshire England49
5Somerset England48
6Suffolk England36
7Nottinghamshire England30
8North Yorkshire England25
9Worcestershire England25
10Doncaster England22
11East Riding of Yorkshire England21
12Surrey England19
13Oxfordshire England17
14Lincolnshire England17
15York England17
987 England8 Scotland34 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,036
Peak month
May
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Ranatra linearis
Group
True bugs
Most recorded in
Northamptonshire, Norfolk, Kent
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hemiptera
Family
Nepidae
Genus
Ranatra
Name with authority
Ranatra linearis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q839307 · GBIF 5152464