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Harlequin ladybird, Asian ladybird, Asian ladybeetle

Harmonia axyridis

108,560Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2,151
Feb2,450
Mar5,055
Apr7,714
May11,088
Jun16,848
Jul13,111
Aug8,818
Sep8,467
Oct20,003
Nov9,314
Dec2,363

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England3,771
2Oxfordshire England3,350
3Cambridgeshire England2,910
4Worcestershire England2,743
5Essex England2,600
6Suffolk England2,535
7Surrey England2,391
8Norfolk England2,203
9Sefton England2,168
10Lincolnshire England1,976
11Devon England1,609
12City of Edinburgh Scotland1,466
13Sheffield England1,447
14Nottinghamshire England1,419
15York England1,146
100,551 England2,428 Scotland5,230 Wales69 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
108,560
Peak month
October
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Harmonia axyridis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
83,977
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Coccinellidae
Genus
Harmonia
Name with authority
Harmonia axyridis (Pallas, 1773)
Described
1773
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q499627 · GBIF 4989904