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Livid Soldier Beetle

Cantharis livida

1,741Records since 2000
JunePeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr2
May740
Jun871
Jul80
Aug2
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1City of Edinburgh Scotland102
2Lincolnshire England68
3Cumbria England60
4Worcestershire England53
5Cambridgeshire England52
6Kent England52
7Norfolk England44
8Surrey England39
9East Riding of Yorkshire England39
10North Yorkshire England37
11York England37
12East Lothian Scotland36
13Dorset England28
14Nottinghamshire England27
15Suffolk England25
1,412 England287 Scotland39 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,741
Peak month
June
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Cantharis livida
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,428
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Cantharidae
Genus
Cantharis
Name with authority
Cantharis livida Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5033777 · GBIF 5744135