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Copper click beetle

Ctenicera cuprea

1,445Records since 2000
MayPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar2
Apr10
May753
Jun562
Jul43
Aug7
Sep3
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland241
2Argyll and Bute Scotland124
3Worcestershire England85
4Cumbria England75
5North Yorkshire England53
6Gwynedd Wales37
7Aberdeenshire Scotland34
8Powys Wales33
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland28
10Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland28
11Perth and Kinross Scotland25
12Sheffield England25
13Stirling Scotland22
14Cheshire East England17
15North Ayrshire Scotland17
637 England648 Scotland108 Wales45 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,445
Peak month
May
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Ctenicera cuprea
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,298
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Ctenicera
Name with authority
Ctenicera cuprea (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1940654 · GBIF 4429289