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Orchesella villosa

250Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
26Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan14
Feb21
Mar26
Apr52
May12
Jun3
Jul15
Aug10
Sep10
Oct27
Nov29
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England28
2Cambridgeshire England12
3Essex England12
4York England9
5Kent England8
6Somerset England8
7Oxfordshire England7
8Sheffield England6
9Nottingham England6
10Kingston upon Hull, City of England6
11Surrey England4
12Devon England4
13Lincolnshire England4
14Suffolk England3
15Gloucestershire England2
234 England2 Scotland4 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 26 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
250
Peak month
April
Counties with records
26
Group
Springtails
NBN Atlas records since 2000
842
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Collembola
Order
Entomobryomorpha
Family
Orchesellidae
Genus
Orchesella
Name with authority
Orchesella villosa (C.von Linné, 1767)
Described
1767

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10611187 · GBIF 2120979