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Common Red Soldier Beetle

Rhagonycha fulva

23,196Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr19
May124
Jun2,843
Jul17,093
Aug2,578
Sep18
Oct6
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England724
2Lincolnshire England637
3Oxfordshire England625
4Dorset England521
5Worcestershire England504
6Cornwall England476
7Cambridgeshire England475
8Sefton England469
9North Yorkshire England455
10Surrey England443
11Essex England427
12Norfolk England421
13Suffolk England410
14Devon England402
15Cumbria England395
18,258 England2,302 Scotland2,078 Wales296 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
23,196
Peak month
July
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Rhagonycha fulva
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
19,393
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cantharidae
Genus
Rhagonycha
Name with authority
Rhagonycha fulva (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
56

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q386268 · GBIF 4429760