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Large-grooved diving beetle

Colymbetes fuscus

1,782Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb30
Mar83
Apr120
May182
Jun171
Jul267
Aug198
Sep242
Oct270
Nov99
Dec19

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Nottinghamshire England148
2East Riding of Yorkshire England132
3Doncaster England121
4North Yorkshire England97
5Norfolk England95
6Dumfries and Galloway Scotland78
7North Lincolnshire England71
8Cambridgeshire England69
9Lincolnshire England61
10Worcestershire England46
11York England37
12Ceredigion Wales30
13Isle of Anglesey Wales20
14Cumbria England18
15Leeds England18
1,534 England117 Scotland93 Wales21 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,782
Peak month
October
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Colymbetes fuscus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,755
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Colymbetes
Name with authority
Colymbetes fuscus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
36

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149696 · GBIF 4989378