About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Pill Beetle
Species · Beetles

Pill Beetle

Byrrhus pilula

603Records since 2000
MayPeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb4
Mar18
Apr98
May173
Jun125
Jul55
Aug21
Sep6
Oct5
Nov3
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England34
2Lincolnshire England33
3Essex England25
4Cambridgeshire England24
5Suffolk England18
6Surrey England17
7Worcestershire England17
8Somerset England16
9Kent England13
10Nottinghamshire England12
11Thurrock England11
12Powys Wales10
13Aberdeenshire Scotland10
14Norfolk England9
15Gwynedd Wales8
528 England33 Scotland39 Wales3 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
603
Peak month
May
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Byrrhus pilula
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
597
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Byrrhidae
Genus
Byrrhus
Name with authority
Byrrhus pilula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2387465 · GBIF 4427965