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Garden Chafer

Phyllopertha horticola

3,758Records since 2000
JunePeak month
75Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar2
Apr4
May1,042
Jun2,294
Jul162
Aug36
Sep5
Oct0
Nov6
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England310
2Devon England206
3Nottinghamshire England192
4Powys Wales159
5Cumbria England143
6Gwynedd Wales134
7Norfolk England120
8Cornwall England91
9Oxfordshire England89
10Argyll and Bute Scotland88
11Highland Scotland86
12Lincolnshire England80
13Surrey England78
14Gloucestershire England77
15Somerset England61
2,824 England231 Scotland584 Wales56 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 75 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,758
Peak month
June
Counties with records
75
Scientific name
Phyllopertha horticola
Also known as
Garden Chafer, Bracken Chafer
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,330
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Phyllopertha
Name with authority
Phyllopertha horticola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q378023 · GBIF 4425804