About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Red-breasted Carrion Beetle
Species · Beetles

Red-breasted Carrion Beetle

Oiceoptoma thoracicum

1,322Records since 2000
MayPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar23
Apr273
May438
Jun225
Jul159
Aug129
Sep31
Oct4
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland216
2Norfolk England111
3North Yorkshire England104
4Argyll and Bute Scotland71
5Cumbria England65
6Perth and Kinross Scotland54
7Worcestershire England44
8Suffolk England42
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland37
10Aberdeenshire Scotland36
11Cambridgeshire England32
12Stirling Scotland31
13Fife Scotland28
14East Lothian Scotland25
15Scottish Borders Scotland22
691 England598 Scotland28 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,322
Peak month
May
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Oiceoptoma thoracicum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,205
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Oiceoptoma
Name with authority
Oiceoptoma thoracicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q390738 · GBIF 4448343