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Pterostichus nigrita

1,752Records since 2000
JunePeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan23
Feb19
Mar68
Apr161
May399
Jun401
Jul177
Aug125
Sep64
Oct22
Nov21
Dec19

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England82
2Kent England80
3Highland Scotland76
4Norfolk England70
5Somerset England67
6Dorset England57
7Essex England54
8Devon England43
9Suffolk England36
10Lincolnshire England30
11Isle of Anglesey Wales29
12Worcestershire England27
13Wakefield England27
14Cumbria England26
15Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland24
1,373 England171 Scotland146 Wales61 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,752
Peak month
June
Counties with records
84
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,750
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Pterostichus
Name with authority
Pterostichus nigrita (Paykull, 1790)
Described
1790
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q11705714 · GBIF 7708350