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Digger small dung beetle

Teuchestes fossor

627Records since 2000
MayPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar0
Apr22
May178
Jun154
Jul152
Aug61
Sep19
Oct5
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England59
2Gwynedd Wales40
3Oxfordshire England39
4Lincolnshire England26
5Worcestershire England25
6Norfolk England24
7North Yorkshire England22
8Cumbria England19
9Devon England18
10Swansea Wales17
11Cornwall England13
12Nottinghamshire England13
13Surrey England11
14Isle of Anglesey Wales11
15Dorset England10
490 England35 Scotland98 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
627
Peak month
May
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Teuchestes fossor
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
602
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Teuchestes
Name with authority
Teuchestes fossor (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14895372 · GBIF 1069044