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Rose Chafer

Cetonia aurata

3,010Records since 2000
MayPeak month
41Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan7
Feb5
Mar63
Apr235
May921
Jun869
Jul544
Aug182
Sep116
Oct37
Nov7
Dec4

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England294
2Surrey England193
3Dorset England134
4Cornwall England104
5Brighton and Hove England83
6Pembrokeshire Wales79
7Bristol, City of England73
8Kent England58
9Oxfordshire England55
10Essex England55
11Isles of Scilly England54
12Somerset England47
13Suffolk England38
14Torbay England36
15Gwynedd Wales31
2,848 England26 Scotland121 Wales14 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 41 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,010
Peak month
May
Counties with records
41
Scientific name
Cetonia aurata
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,513
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Cetonia
Name with authority
Cetonia aurata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q731970 · GBIF 1077829