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Margined click beetle

Dalopius marginatus

1,577Records since 2000
MayPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb6
Mar14
Apr104
May628
Jun515
Jul158
Aug33
Sep7
Oct1
Nov4
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England197
2Highland Scotland168
3Norfolk England81
4Worcestershire England58
5Cambridgeshire England53
6Surrey England50
7North Lincolnshire England50
8North Yorkshire England48
9Aberdeenshire Scotland47
10Perth and Kinross Scotland41
11Suffolk England35
12Cheshire East England32
13Nottinghamshire England28
14Powys Wales21
15East Ayrshire Scotland18
1,050 England368 Scotland61 Wales48 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,577
Peak month
May
Counties with records
85
Scientific name
Dalopius marginatus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,489
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Dalopius
Name with authority
Dalopius marginatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
43

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1519629 · GBIF 4428376