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Cow parsley leaf beetle

Chrysolina oricalcia

800Records since 2000
MayPeak month
54Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb5
Mar10
Apr19
May332
Jun312
Jul40
Aug9
Sep29
Oct21
Nov6
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England72
2Kent England43
3Cambridgeshire England42
4Lincolnshire England37
5Suffolk England35
6Norfolk England28
7Nottinghamshire England18
8Northamptonshire England18
9Oxfordshire England14
10Surrey England14
11Worcestershire England12
12Somerset England8
13Dorset England7
14Devon England7
15Gloucestershire England7
787 England4 Scotland5 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 54 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
800
Peak month
May
Counties with records
54
Scientific name
Chrysolina oricalcia
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
624
Most recorded in
Essex
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Chrysolina
Name with authority
Chrysolina oricalcia (Müller, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1319194 · GBIF 4459825