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Cosmopolitan Diving Beetle

Rhantus suturalis

891Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
41Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan12
Feb12
Mar49
Apr87
May114
Jun85
Jul68
Aug67
Sep146
Oct171
Nov48
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England103
2North Lincolnshire England87
3Doncaster England69
4East Riding of Yorkshire England61
5Nottinghamshire England59
6North Yorkshire England46
7Lincolnshire England43
8Cambridgeshire England38
9Wakefield England23
10York England17
11Worcestershire England11
12Dumfries and Galloway Scotland10
13Kent England8
14Leeds England7
15Somerset England6
849 England17 Scotland24 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 41 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
891
Peak month
October
Counties with records
41
Scientific name
Rhantus suturalis
Also known as
a water beetle
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
883
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Rhantus
Name with authority
Rhantus suturalis (W.S.MacLeay, 1825)
Described
1825
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2327112 · GBIF 5753539