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Chequered Click Beetle

Prosternon tessellatum

728Records since 2000
JunePeak month
54Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar0
Apr30
May247
Jun286
Jul89
Aug5
Sep1
Oct0
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England65
2Nottinghamshire England65
3Worcestershire England63
4Suffolk England48
5Norfolk England44
6Kent England17
7Gwynedd Wales15
8Cambridgeshire England14
9North Lincolnshire England14
10Surrey England13
11Devon England12
12Sefton England12
13Highland Scotland8
14Powys Wales8
15Oxfordshire England7
644 England26 Scotland53 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 54 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
728
Peak month
June
Counties with records
54
Scientific name
Prosternon tessellatum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
659
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Prosternon
Name with authority
Prosternon tessellatum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1316400 · GBIF 4428461