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Anacaena limbata

3,727Records since 2000
JunePeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan42
Feb60
Mar245
Apr450
May533
Jun555
Jul347
Aug349
Sep376
Oct381
Nov173
Dec34

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England412
2Nottinghamshire England391
3East Riding of Yorkshire England301
4Doncaster England206
5Cambridgeshire England188
6North Lincolnshire England185
7North Yorkshire England180
8Lincolnshire England165
9Worcestershire England101
10Isle of Anglesey Wales49
11York England41
12Essex England40
13Rotherham England32
14Kent England31
15Monmouthshire Wales29
3,396 England6 Scotland248 Wales64 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,727
Peak month
June
Counties with records
64
Also known as
Scavenger Water Beetle
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,783
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Hydrophilidae
Genus
Anacaena
Name with authority
Anacaena limbata (Fabricius, 1792)
Described
1792
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1292648 · GBIF 1034064