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Great Diving Beetle

Dytiscus marginalis

1,035Records since 2000
MayPeak month
81Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan9
Feb18
Mar43
Apr90
May163
Jun137
Jul139
Aug122
Sep121
Oct99
Nov28
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Doncaster England67
2Nottinghamshire England65
3Dumfries and Galloway Scotland41
4East Riding of Yorkshire England39
5North Yorkshire England39
6Norfolk England34
7Cambridgeshire England30
8Lincolnshire England29
9Highland Scotland25
10Worcestershire England20
11North Lincolnshire England18
12South Lanarkshire Scotland15
13Cheshire East England14
14Suffolk England13
15Argyll and Bute Scotland13
752 England152 Scotland77 Wales47 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,035
Peak month
May
Counties with records
81
Scientific name
Dytiscus marginalis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,003
Most recorded in
Doncaster, Nottinghamshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Dytiscus
Name with authority
Dytiscus marginalis Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
47

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q20851 · GBIF 1038064