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Pterostichus niger

3,024Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
108Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan89
Feb96
Mar144
Apr249
May274
Jun421
Jul579
Aug462
Sep210
Oct51
Nov54
Dec51

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland220
2Lincolnshire England186
3Norfolk England130
4Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland108
5Cambridgeshire England103
6North Yorkshire England92
7Argyll and Bute Scotland62
8Carmarthenshire Wales60
9Worcestershire England56
10Fife Scotland55
11Devon England53
12Cumbria England53
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland53
14Powys Wales53
15Nottinghamshire England45
1,878 England804 Scotland271 Wales66 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 108 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,024
Peak month
July
Counties with records
108
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,895
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Pterostichus
Name with authority
Pterostichus niger (Schaller, 1783)
Described
1783
Contributing datasets
42

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1548696 · GBIF 9314786