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Devil's Coach-horse

Ocypus olens

1,098Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb12
Mar27
Apr27
May51
Jun83
Jul104
Aug156
Sep311
Oct152
Nov53
Dec12

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England70
2Worcestershire England61
3Highland Scotland41
4Glasgow City Scotland31
5Surrey England29
6Essex England28
7Argyll and Bute Scotland26
8Kent England23
9Norfolk England22
10Cornwall England19
11Devon England19
12Suffolk England18
13Gwynedd Wales17
14Powys Wales17
15Swansea Wales17
742 England173 Scotland115 Wales51 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,098
Peak month
September
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Ocypus olens
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
650
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Ocypus
Name with authority
Ocypus olens (O.F.Müller, 1764)
Described
1764
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q855934 · GBIF 5746121