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16-spot Ladybird

Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata

9,156Records since 2000
MayPeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan199
Feb248
Mar429
Apr831
May1,482
Jun1,332
Jul1,256
Aug1,270
Sep696
Oct322
Nov247
Dec256

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England1,616
2Kent England489
3Essex England451
4Cambridgeshire England404
5Norfolk England361
6Telford and Wrekin England333
7Surrey England267
8Suffolk England244
9Lincolnshire England221
10Oxfordshire England214
11Nottinghamshire England202
12Dorset England123
13Devon England109
14Gloucestershire England93
15Northamptonshire England71
9,007 England8 Scotland80 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,156
Peak month
May
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,535
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Tytthaspis
Name with authority
Tytthaspis sedecimpunctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q176338 · GBIF 4452258