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A water beetle

Cryptopleurum minutum

174Records since 2000
JunePeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar2
Apr7
May23
Jun45
Jul18
Aug17
Sep24
Oct3
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England43
2Highland Scotland28
3Worcestershire England22
4North Yorkshire England6
5Surrey England5
6Essex England5
7Gwynedd Wales5
8Powys Wales5
9Doncaster England5
10Norfolk England3
11Nottinghamshire England2
12Dumfries and Galloway Scotland2
13Aberdeenshire Scotland2
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland2
15Kent England1
125 England34 Scotland12 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
174
Peak month
June
Counties with records
27
Scientific name
Cryptopleurum minutum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
178
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Cryptopleurum
Name with authority
Cryptopleurum minutum (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14931186 · GBIF 1034242