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Species
Groups
By month
Families
Counties
Designations
Most recorded
Year described
Earthy
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Year described
1776
Described in 1776
140
species
1775
1777
Large Red Damselfly
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
143,697
Marmalade hoverfly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
46,804
Black Darter
Group
Dragonflies and damselflies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
26,741
Little Gull
Group
Birds
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
23,156
Bristleworm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
13,819
Broad beau of sea
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
11,335
Brittlestar
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
10,470
Eriothrix rufomaculatus
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
8,117
Light Bulb Tunicate
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
7,424
Glycera alba
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
7,155
Glossy furrow-shell
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
7,146
Sea Gooseberry
Group
Other invertebrates
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
5,049
Dirty Sea-squirt
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
5,013
Pista cristata
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
4,898
Woundwort Shieldbug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
4,664
Wart Barnacle
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
4,206
Ascidia mentula
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
3,939
Striped Slender Robberfly
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
3,844
Grey Sailor Beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
3,495
Golden trumpet worm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
3,367
Estuary ragworm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
3,299
Grey-patched Mining Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
3,249
Worm-like Sea Cucumber
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
3,034
Syllis armillaris
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,890
Lesser Swallow Prominent
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,833
Red cushion stat
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,817
Thistle Tortoise Beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,654
Hairy Whirligig
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,611
Bristleworm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,323
Face Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,314
Dioctria rufipes
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,206
Banded house mosquito
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,143
Slender Sea Pen
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,139
Gas Mantle Ascidian
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,998
Conops quadrifasciatus
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,991
Hairy sea-squirt
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,872
Siphona geniculata
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,852
Little Bunting
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
1,835
Common Tortoiseshell Limpet
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,749
Ascidia virginea
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,669
Orange-Clubbed Sea Slug
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,616
American Golden-Plover
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
1,494
Four-lined Polycera
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,471
Bristleworm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,395
Pseudovadonia livida
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,375
White tortoiseshell limpet
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,355
Weevil
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
1,257
Tipula fulvipennis
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,226
Purple Heart Urchin
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,188
Yellow May Dun
Group
Mayflies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
1,186
Bristleworm
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
1,111
Broken-belted Bumble Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
1,093
Dark-saddled Leucozona
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,079
Thyone fusus
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,053
Echinocardium flavescens
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
949
Microtendipes pedellus
Group
True flies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
912
Rosy Starfish
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
858
Flecked General
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
835
Cow parsley leaf beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
800
Blood Star
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
760
Minute Nutclam
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
759
Pherusa plumosa
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
694
Scoletoma fragilis
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
684
Ascidia conchilega
Group
Sea squirts
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
659
Springtail
Group
Springtails
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
653
Citrine Wagtail
Group
Birds
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
632
Tiger scallop
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
594
Red-tailed Carder Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
583
Crowned Aeolis
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
557
Fuzzy Onchidoris
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
556
Rustic Bunting
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
542
Mottled anemone
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
540
Sericomyia superbiens
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
527
Maned sea anemone
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
474
Novocrania anomala
Group
Other invertebrates
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
455
Hybos femoratus
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
437
A Mining Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
428
Smaller Noterus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
413
Ditrupa arietina
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
377
Dolerus nigratus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
376
Philhelius citrofasciata
Group
True flies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
371
Dytiscus semisulcatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
334
Trichocera hiemalis
Group
True flies
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
306
Chaoborus crystallinus
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
287
Bitterling
Group
Fish
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
286
Eunice pennata
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
258
Trixa conspersa
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
251
Typosyllis armillaris
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
250
Agrilus biguttatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
240
Lispe tentaculata
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
232
Amara fulva
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
230
Pimpla contemplator
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
230
Amphitrite cirrata
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
217
Ochthera mantis
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
213
Siberian Accentor
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
205
Ancistrocerus trifasciatus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
187
Dasytes plumbeus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
178
Cratichneumon culex
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
175
Simulium erythrocephalum
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
166
Velutina velutina
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
158
Oak Lutestring
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
157
Cimbex connatus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
148
Psococerastis gibbosa
Group
Other insects
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
148
Bolinopsis infundibulum
Group
Other invertebrates
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
145
Dixella amphibia
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
136
Ischnus inquisitorius
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
134
Macrophya albicincta
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
124
Praunus flexuosus
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
114
Red-necked Stint
Group
Birds
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
112
Akera bullata
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
110
Lamellaria latens
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
110
Camptocladius stercorarius
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
108
Centroptilum luteolum
Group
Mayflies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
108
Tenthredo ferruginea
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
103
Blackburnian Warbler
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
100
Dasysyrphus pinastri
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
100
Scarlet Sea Anemone
Group
Jellyfish, corals and anemones
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
100
Chrysura radians
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
95
Olethreutes schulziana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
95
Proceraea prismatica
Group
Worms (annelids)
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
94
Gyrohypnus fracticornis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
93
Siberian Thrush
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
93
Ampedus sanguinolentus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
92
Girdled Leafhopper
Group
True bugs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
92
Cryptocephalus parvulus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
87
Notoplana atomata
Group
Flatworms
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
87
Pea aphid
Group
True bugs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
85
Black-faced bunting
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
82
Isotomurus palustris
Group
Springtails
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
78
Baillon's Crake
Group
Birds
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
77
Physocephala nigra
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
71
Mycetophila fungorum
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
64
Horse Bot Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
61
Diphyus quadripunctorius
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
59
Yponomeuta plumbella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
57
Northern sea urchin
Group
Starfish and sea urchins
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
54
Lampronia praelatella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
53
Apethymus serotinus
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
50
Helochares obscurus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
50
Palliolum striatum
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
50