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Brown Chafer

Serica brunnea

1,703Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May5
Jun308
Jul879
Aug306
Sep13
Oct9
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England186
2Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland169
3Norfolk England85
4Highland Scotland84
5Suffolk England74
6Fife Scotland74
7Surrey England54
8Argyll and Bute Scotland52
9Nottinghamshire England46
10Isle of Anglesey Wales46
11Cambridgeshire England43
12East Riding of Yorkshire England37
13Oxfordshire England31
14Cumbria England27
15North Yorkshire England24
1,014 England516 Scotland144 Wales22 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,703
Peak month
July
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Serica brunnea
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,605
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Serica
Name with authority
Serica brunnea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2417033 · GBIF 8353562