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Rhinoceros Beetle

Sinodendron cylindricum

1,303Records since 2000
JunePeak month
79Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan23
Feb22
Mar33
Apr44
May240
Jun568
Jul149
Aug48
Sep25
Oct24
Nov39
Dec9

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England84
2Oxfordshire England67
3Worcestershire England47
4Gloucestershire England43
5Surrey England37
6Cambridgeshire England35
7Lincolnshire England32
8Norfolk England30
9Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland28
10Monmouthshire Wales24
11Sheffield England23
12Highland Scotland22
13Nottinghamshire England22
14Cumbria England20
15Pembrokeshire Wales18
1,083 England94 Scotland91 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 79 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,303
Peak month
June
Counties with records
79
Scientific name
Sinodendron cylindricum
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,203
Most recorded in
North Yorkshire, Oxfordshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Lucanidae
Genus
Sinodendron
Name with authority
Sinodendron cylindricum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q530623 · GBIF 4425587