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Rosemary Beetle

Chrysolina americana

3,296Records since 2000
JunePeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb91
Mar173
Apr319
May513
Jun781
Jul397
Aug161
Sep421
Oct261
Nov86
Dec45

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England183
2Essex England132
3Cambridgeshire England122
4City of Edinburgh Scotland121
5Suffolk England97
6Kent England93
7York England79
8Norfolk England71
9Surrey England44
10Lincolnshire England44
11Rutland England38
12Glasgow City Scotland36
13Devon England32
14Stockport England32
15Oxfordshire England31
2,991 England213 Scotland90 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,296
Peak month
June
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Chrysolina americana
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,591
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Chrysomelidae
Genus
Chrysolina
Name with authority
Chrysolina americana (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1704024 · GBIF 4460066