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Oxypselaphus obscurus

1,525Records since 2000
MayPeak month
45Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan89
Feb110
Mar102
Apr160
May259
Jun212
Jul130
Aug94
Sep56
Oct71
Nov87
Dec61

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England296
2Lincolnshire England117
3Doncaster England86
4Norfolk England71
5Worcestershire England55
6Oxfordshire England50
7Kent England46
8Surrey England43
9Northamptonshire England41
10Devon England38
11Dorset England36
12Suffolk England32
13Nottinghamshire England32
14Somerset England30
15Powys Wales25
1,468 England2 Scotland32 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 45 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,525
Peak month
May
Counties with records
45
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,511
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Oxypselaphus
Name with authority
Oxypselaphus obscurus (Herbst, 1784)
Described
1784
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2365574 · GBIF 4474146