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Cantharis cryptica

1,714Records since 2000
JunePeak month
83Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar0
Apr4
May433
Jun967
Jul183
Aug10
Sep4
Oct0
Nov1
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England135
2Norfolk England87
3Worcestershire England84
4Suffolk England61
5Cambridgeshire England59
6Highland Scotland54
7North Yorkshire England52
8Gwynedd Wales44
9Nottinghamshire England39
10Kent England36
11Dorset England28
12Cumbria England27
13East Riding of Yorkshire England26
14Essex England25
15Devon England25
1,339 England147 Scotland166 Wales39 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 83 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,714
Peak month
June
Counties with records
83
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,601
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cantharidae
Genus
Cantharis
Name with authority
Cantharis cryptica Ashe, 1947
Described
1947
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2936594 · GBIF 5744026