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Melanotus villosus

461Records since 2000
JunePeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan9
Feb5
Mar9
Apr15
May116
Jun130
Jul62
Aug20
Sep11
Oct12
Nov18
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England35
2Nottinghamshire England34
3Cambridgeshire England23
4Oxfordshire England22
5Surrey England20
6Essex England16
7Gloucestershire England16
8Lincolnshire England13
9Devon England10
10Dorset England8
11Liverpool England8
12Suffolk England7
13Kent England7
14Worcestershire England6
15Cumbria England6
426 England5 Scotland15 Wales13 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
461
Peak month
June
Counties with records
52
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
517
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Melanotus
Name with authority
Melanotus villosus (Geoffroy, 1785)
Described
1785
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1633359 · GBIF 5878832