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Beetle

Perapion violaceum

586Records since 2000
MayPeak month
75Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb11
Mar18
Apr60
May142
Jun132
Jul102
Aug28
Sep16
Oct9
Nov12
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England49
2Worcestershire England34
3Surrey England20
4Norfolk England13
5Doncaster England13
6Swansea Wales12
7Cumbria England11
8Orkney Islands Scotland11
9Cambridgeshire England9
10Kent England9
11Pembrokeshire Wales9
12Oxfordshire England8
13Devon England8
14North Yorkshire England8
15Nottinghamshire England7
474 England40 Scotland61 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 75 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
586
Peak month
May
Counties with records
75
Scientific name
Perapion violaceum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
587
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Brentidae
Genus
Perapion
Name with authority
Perapion violaceum (Kirby, 1808)
Described
1808
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q16515229 · GBIF 4290685