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Banded Sexton Beetle

Nicrophorus investigator

2,587Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar1
Apr4
May6
Jun55
Jul640
Aug1,108
Sep614
Oct111
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland240
2Argyll and Bute Scotland227
3Norfolk England186
4East Riding of Yorkshire England123
5Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland111
6Orkney Islands Scotland76
7Scottish Borders Scotland67
8Suffolk England64
9Worcestershire England51
10Cumbria England51
11North Yorkshire England43
12Gwynedd Wales40
13Cambridgeshire England32
14Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland26
15Fife Scotland25
1,443 England924 Scotland136 Wales76 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,587
Peak month
August
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Nicrophorus investigator
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,461
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Nicrophorus
Name with authority
Nicrophorus investigator (Zetterstedt, 1824)
Described
1824
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1760535 · GBIF 1038996