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Orchid Beetle

Dascillus cervinus

1,692Records since 2000
JunePeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr1
May151
Jun1,330
Jul148
Aug7
Sep2
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gwynedd Wales118
2Cumbria England91
3Argyll and Bute Scotland88
4North Yorkshire England82
5Worcestershire England69
6Highland Scotland65
7Dumfries and Galloway Scotland47
8Powys Wales43
9Scottish Borders Scotland43
10Cornwall England34
11Kent England32
12Devon England30
13Perth and Kinross Scotland29
14Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland29
15Oxfordshire England28
1,037 England350 Scotland221 Wales68 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,692
Peak month
June
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Dascillus cervinus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,483
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dascillidae
Genus
Dascillus
Name with authority
Dascillus cervinus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q814415 · GBIF 5744968