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Common Cardinal Beetle

Pyrochroa serraticornis

8,863Records since 2000
MayPeak month
81Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb13
Mar5
Apr403
May5,774
Jun2,279
Jul83
Aug18
Sep3
Oct15
Nov13
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England344
2Norfolk England329
3Cambridgeshire England307
4Worcestershire England302
5Lincolnshire England275
6Oxfordshire England272
7Essex England238
8Northamptonshire England194
9Somerset England192
10Devon England191
11Suffolk England185
12North Yorkshire England167
13East Riding of Yorkshire England141
14Gloucestershire England133
15Nottinghamshire England120
8,318 England17 Scotland524 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,863
Peak month
May
Counties with records
81
Scientific name
Pyrochroa serraticornis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,413
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Pyrochroidae
Genus
Pyrochroa
Name with authority
Pyrochroa serraticornis (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q212321 · GBIF 8843472