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Mud dweller

Ilybius ater

966Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar13
Apr45
May108
Jun217
Jul224
Aug145
Sep108
Oct26
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England100
2Dumfries and Galloway Scotland66
3North Yorkshire England59
4Doncaster England50
5East Riding of Yorkshire England47
6Worcestershire England47
7Nottinghamshire England42
8Cambridgeshire England25
9Isle of Anglesey Wales22
10Ceredigion Wales20
11Scottish Borders Scotland20
12Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland20
13Cumbria England19
14Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland19
15North Lincolnshire England18
707 England127 Scotland66 Wales61 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
966
Peak month
July
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Ilybius ater
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,030
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Ilybius
Name with authority
Ilybius ater (De Geer, 1774)
Described
1774
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2456471 · GBIF 1038776