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Night-flying Dung Beetle

Acrossus rufipes

2,931Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb1
Mar1
Apr10
May110
Jun303
Jul709
Aug850
Sep671
Oct174
Nov10
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England248
2York England126
3North Yorkshire England112
4Oxfordshire England101
5Orkney Islands Scotland100
6Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland92
7Worcestershire England91
8Cambridgeshire England86
9Norfolk England85
10Devon England76
11Argyll and Bute Scotland72
12Highland Scotland70
13Gwynedd Wales57
14Herefordshire, County of England51
15Surrey England46
2,173 England487 Scotland198 Wales62 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,931
Peak month
August
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Acrossus rufipes
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,822
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Acrossus
Name with authority
Acrossus rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4779640 · GBIF 1068592