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Fan-bearing Wood-borer

Ptilinus pectinicornis

789Records since 2000
JunePeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan6
Feb7
Mar10
Apr7
May99
Jun313
Jul130
Aug30
Sep12
Oct10
Nov11
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England65
2Worcestershire England59
3Cheshire East England46
4Oxfordshire England39
5Cambridgeshire England37
6Essex England34
7Norfolk England29
8Nottinghamshire England25
9Liverpool England22
10Trafford England20
11Monmouthshire Wales20
12Kent England17
13City of Edinburgh Scotland17
14North Yorkshire England13
15Suffolk England11
696 England36 Scotland40 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
789
Peak month
June
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Ptilinus pectinicornis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
781
Most recorded in
Lincolnshire, Worcestershire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Anobiidae
Genus
Ptilinus
Name with authority
Ptilinus pectinicornis (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 Q2314103 · GBIF 1095148