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Species
Groups
By month
Families
Counties
Designations
Most recorded
Year described
Earthy
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Year described
1787
Described in 1787
85
species
1786
1788
Greater Whitethroat
Group
Birds
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
231,628
Sandwich Tern
Group
Birds
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
88,504
Pointed-keeled Rhyzobius
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
5,369
Limnephilus flavicornis
Group
Caddisflies
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
3,589
Juniper Shieldbug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,649
Clay
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,612
Sylvicola punctatus
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,153
Trichosirocalus troglodytes
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,726
Wood gnat
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,709
Topknot
Group
Fish
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
1,468
Fourspot Sedgesitter
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,424
White-legged cranefly
Group
True flies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
1,333
Cordylepherus viridis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,201
Stenodema holsata
Group
True bugs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,034
Small Yellow-legged Robberfly
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
1,012
Graptodytes pictus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
1,008
Salpingus planirostris
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
1,008
Clover seed weevil
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
993
Psectrotanypus varius
Group
True flies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
984
Spiny Lobster
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
979
Taiga/Tundra Bean-Goose
Group
Birds
Peak month
January
Records since 2000
949
Liopterus haemorrhoidalis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
884
Bembidion dentellum
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
828
Snouted Duck Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
748
Frosted Green
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
728
Phaonia pallida
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
632
Stenocranus minutus
Group
True bugs
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
588
Limonia flavipes
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
550
Rove beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
521
Prionocera turcica
Group
True flies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
500
Two-marked harp ground beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
498
Dicranomyia morio
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
490
Dune sand scarab beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
476
Notonecta obliqua
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
449
Scymnus frontalis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
427
Pterostichus oblongopunctatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
383
Platycis minutus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
329
Chlaenius nigricornis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
327
Hydroporus dorsalis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
315
Ceutorhynchus erysimi
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
286
Lamprotettix nitidulus
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
274
Diurnea fagella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
271
Haliplus obliquus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
253
Biphyllus lunatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
251
Hygrotus confluens
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
245
Grynobius planus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
243
Mycetophagus atomarius
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
206
Rhodaphodius foetens
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
204
Loensia fasciata
Group
Other insects
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
195
Coeliodes rana
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
191
Furcula bifida
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
188
Stemonitis fusca
Group
Microorganisms and protists
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
163
Beautiful snout
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
159
Dromius agilis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
159
Grass wave
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
157
Roeslerstammia erxlebella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
149
Symplecta pilipes
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
127
Acrocera orbicula
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
123
Spinach
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
122
Olindia schumacherana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
114
Pelenomus quadrituberculatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
108
Cream-Coloured Courser
Group
Birds
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
107
Ischnomera sanguinicollis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
106
Catops morio
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
105
Tanymecus palliatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
104
Cychramus luteus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
98
Great Snipe
Group
Birds
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
93
Netted pug
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
79
Scarodytes halensis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
78
Glyphipterix forsterella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
77
Spatalistis bifasciana
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
74
Ampedus elongatulus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
73
Sphaeroma serratum
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
67
Heterocerus marginatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
65
A beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
62
Cryptarcha strigata
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
61
Mycetochara humeralis
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
61
Xantholinus tricolor
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
61
Aulacobaris cuprirostris
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
60
Hylesinus crenatus
Group
Beetles
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
60
Small Velvet Ant
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
59
Micropterix tunbergella
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
53
Golden Plusia
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
52
Drosophila funebris
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
51
Colydium elongatum
Group
Beetles
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
50