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Black Sexton Beetle

Nicrophorus humator

4,980Records since 2000
MayPeak month
103Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb17
Mar351
Apr1,302
May1,540
Jun584
Jul305
Aug422
Sep237
Oct117
Nov34
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England388
2East Riding of Yorkshire England231
3Highland Scotland143
4Suffolk England135
5Oxfordshire England130
6Gloucestershire England122
7Argyll and Bute Scotland112
8Scottish Borders Scotland107
9Worcestershire England104
10Cambridgeshire England100
11North Yorkshire England67
12Devon England64
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland63
14Cumbria England62
15Kent England61
3,917 England770 Scotland219 Wales60 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,980
Peak month
May
Counties with records
103
Scientific name
Nicrophorus humator
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,686
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Nicrophorus
Name with authority
Nicrophorus humator (Gleditsch, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2254095 · GBIF 1039003