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Belted Springtail

Orchesella cincta

2,782Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan170
Feb148
Mar154
Apr177
May95
Jun67
Jul201
Aug200
Sep304
Oct357
Nov338
Dec274

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Somerset England733
2Worcestershire England253
3Aberdeen City Scotland93
4Cambridgeshire England60
5Telford and Wrekin England49
6Oxfordshire England46
7Kent England41
8Sefton England30
9Essex England23
10York England14
11Norfolk England12
12Surrey England12
13Argyll and Bute Scotland12
14Lincolnshire England11
15Sheffield England10
1,963 England134 Scotland16 Wales29 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
2,782
Peak month
October
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Orchesella cincta
Group
Springtails
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,307
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Collembola
Order
Entomobryomorpha
Family
Orchesellidae
Genus
Orchesella
Name with authority
Orchesella cincta (C.Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q7100224 · GBIF 2120964