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Common Burying Beetle

Nicrophorus vespillo

816Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar10
Apr19
May123
Jun154
Jul205
Aug190
Sep49
Oct16
Nov4
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England64
2Norfolk England43
3Gloucestershire England40
4Suffolk England30
5Worcestershire England29
6Devon England26
7Isle of Anglesey Wales26
8Oxfordshire England25
9Pembrokeshire Wales25
10Nottinghamshire England22
11Gwynedd Wales21
12Dorset England18
13Herefordshire, County of England18
14Lincolnshire England15
15North Yorkshire England14
645 England22 Scotland145 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
816
Peak month
July
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Nicrophorus vespillo
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
755
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Nicrophorus
Name with authority
Nicrophorus vespillo (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q524173 · GBIF 1039017