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Black-headed Cardinal Beetle

Pyrochroa coccinea

1,862Records since 2000
MayPeak month
51Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb2
Mar5
Apr89
May1,084
Jun494
Jul31
Aug17
Sep8
Oct11
Nov4
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England140
2Kent England106
3Oxfordshire England62
4Nottinghamshire England62
5Surrey England47
6Herefordshire, County of England38
7Essex England31
8North Yorkshire England31
9Monmouthshire Wales26
10Powys Wales25
11Norfolk England24
12Gloucestershire England23
13Cumbria England22
14Telford and Wrekin England16
15Sheffield England13
1,741 England2 Scotland119 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 51 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,862
Peak month
May
Counties with records
51
Scientific name
Pyrochroa coccinea
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,628
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Pyrochroidae
Genus
Pyrochroa
Name with authority
Pyrochroa coccinea (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q179827 · GBIF 5751237