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Gorse Weevil

Exapion ulicis

2,126Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan70
Feb113
Mar257
Apr535
May444
Jun141
Jul127
Aug159
Sep95
Oct55
Nov19
Dec28

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England195
2Norfolk England112
3Worcestershire England60
4Suffolk England58
5City of Edinburgh Scotland54
6Dorset England48
7York England45
8Kent England41
9Nottinghamshire England38
10North Lincolnshire England38
11Surrey England36
12Cumbria England35
13Cornwall England28
14Cambridgeshire England26
15Oxfordshire England25
1,725 England160 Scotland159 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,126
Peak month
April
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Exapion ulicis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,904
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Brentidae
Genus
Exapion
Name with authority
Exapion ulicis (Forster, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5419332 · GBIF 4290691