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Rainbow Greenclock Beetle

Poecilus versicolor

1,479Records since 2000
MayPeak month
68Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan9
Feb15
Mar51
Apr196
May352
Jun227
Jul188
Aug130
Sep73
Oct28
Nov12
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England120
2Norfolk England90
3North Yorkshire England76
4Devon England62
5Isle of Anglesey Wales61
6Worcestershire England56
7Suffolk England54
8Cumbria England53
9Carmarthenshire Wales49
10Highland Scotland43
11Oxfordshire England36
12Argyll and Bute Scotland29
13Powys Wales26
14Swansea Wales26
15Dorset England25
1,061 England109 Scotland295 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 68 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,479
Peak month
May
Counties with records
68
Scientific name
Poecilus versicolor
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,468
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Poecilus
Name with authority
Poecilus versicolor (Sturm, 1824)
Described
1824
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3393162 · GBIF 5753720