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Horsetail Weevil

Grypus equiseti

149Records since 2000
JunePeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar1
Apr5
May34
Jun49
Jul23
Aug9
Sep5
Oct1
Nov1
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England11
2Dorset England7
3Ceredigion Wales7
4Oxfordshire England6
5North Yorkshire England6
6Gwynedd Wales6
7North Ayrshire Scotland6
8Highland Scotland5
9Cumbria England5
10Nottinghamshire England5
11Wrexham Wales5
12Suffolk England4
13Sefton England4
14Worcestershire England3
15North Lincolnshire England3
98 England18 Scotland28 Wales5 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
149
Peak month
June
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Grypus equiseti
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
142
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Brachyceridae
Genus
Grypus
Name with authority
Grypus equiseti (J.C.Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q21270703 · GBIF 1247449