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Hairy click beetle

Hemicrepidius hirtus

554Records since 2000
JunePeak month
60Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr8
May32
Jun257
Jul203
Aug15
Sep0
Oct1
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England54
2Cambridgeshire England51
3Norfolk England23
4Worcestershire England17
5Essex England16
6Highland Scotland15
7Gwynedd Wales14
8Aberdeen City Scotland14
9Kent England13
10Surrey England12
11City of Edinburgh Scotland12
12North Yorkshire England11
13Orkney Islands Scotland11
14Dumfries and Galloway Scotland10
15North Lincolnshire England10
437 England75 Scotland31 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 60 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
554
Peak month
June
Counties with records
60
Scientific name
Hemicrepidius hirtus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
538
Most recorded in
Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Hemicrepidius
Name with authority
Hemicrepidius hirtus (Herbst, 1784)
Described
1784
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1634379 · GBIF 4429353