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Dune sand scarab beetle

Aegialia arenaria

476Records since 2000
MayPeak month
30Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb4
Mar20
Apr75
May99
Jun79
Jul93
Aug63
Sep25
Oct9
Nov3
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gwynedd Wales45
2Isle of Anglesey Wales45
3Devon England44
4Swansea Wales31
5Norfolk England23
6Pembrokeshire Wales22
7Cambridgeshire England19
8Sefton England19
9Conwy Wales18
10Carmarthenshire Wales16
11Lincolnshire England7
12Highland Scotland6
13Ceredigion Wales6
14Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland6
15East Riding of Yorkshire England5
118 England19 Scotland265 Wales13 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
476
Peak month
May
Counties with records
30
Scientific name
Aegialia arenaria
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
398
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Aegialia
Name with authority
Aegialia arenaria (Fabricius, 1787)
Described
1787
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2103115 · GBIF 1072045