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Boreal Carrion Beetle

Nicrophorus vespilloides

1,707Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar6
Apr56
May269
Jun292
Jul324
Aug379
Sep196
Oct73
Nov12
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland200
2Argyll and Bute Scotland94
3Cumbria England62
4Aberdeenshire Scotland59
5North Yorkshire England49
6Worcestershire England49
7Nottinghamshire England47
8Norfolk England46
9Cambridgeshire England40
10Dumfries and Galloway Scotland33
11Stirling Scotland32
12Devon England30
13Fife Scotland30
14Perth and Kinross Scotland30
15Pembrokeshire Wales27
845 England659 Scotland163 Wales26 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,707
Peak month
August
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Nicrophorus vespilloides
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,514
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Nicrophorus
Name with authority
Nicrophorus vespilloides Herbst, 1783
Described
1783
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q577020 · GBIF 1039006