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14-spotted Ladybird Beetle

Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata

25,758Records since 2000
MayPeak month
115Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan43
Feb60
Mar198
Apr2,826
May7,961
Jun5,076
Jul4,651
Aug2,658
Sep848
Oct173
Nov67
Dec45

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,782
2Cambridgeshire England876
3Lincolnshire England787
4Essex England748
5Oxfordshire England745
6Surrey England708
7Kent England675
8Nottinghamshire England644
9Norfolk England600
10North Yorkshire England432
11Suffolk England430
12Devon England408
13Telford and Wrekin England346
14York England342
15East Riding of Yorkshire England308
23,966 England431 Scotland889 Wales328 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 115 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
25,758
Peak month
May
Counties with records
115
Scientific name
Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata
Group
Beetles
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Propylaea
Name with authority
Propylaea quatuordecimpunctata (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 Q1888060 · GBIF 1043572