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Lesser Diving-beetle

Acilius sulcatus

538Records since 2000
MayPeak month
53Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb1
Mar22
Apr53
May94
Jun67
Jul68
Aug73
Sep63
Oct47
Nov11
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Doncaster England46
2Highland Scotland39
3Cambridgeshire England34
4Worcestershire England33
5Norfolk England28
6North Yorkshire England22
7Nottinghamshire England18
8Dumfries and Galloway Scotland12
9Herefordshire, County of England12
10York England11
11Essex England10
12Lincolnshire England10
13East Riding of Yorkshire England9
14Cheshire East England8
15Cumbria England7
433 England76 Scotland16 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 53 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
538
Peak month
May
Counties with records
53
Scientific name
Acilius sulcatus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
492
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Acilius
Name with authority
Acilius sulcatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q259931 · GBIF 4470286