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Contacyphon hilaris

1,748Records since 2000
JunePeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May456
Jun545
Jul515
Aug117
Sep51
Oct32
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1East Ayrshire Scotland559
2Norfolk England107
3Somerset England87
4Dorset England44
5Highland Scotland42
6Dumfries and Galloway Scotland38
7Cambridgeshire England33
8Gwynedd Wales25
9Powys Wales25
10Devon England21
11Doncaster England21
12North Yorkshire England19
13Isle of Anglesey Wales18
14Argyll and Bute Scotland14
15East Riding of Yorkshire England11
496 England563 Scotland81 Wales25 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,748
Peak month
June
Counties with records
57
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,198
Most recorded in
East Ayrshire, Norfolk, Somerset
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scirtidae
Genus
Contacyphon
Name with authority
Contacyphon hilaris (Nyholm, 1944)
Described
1944
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 9424647