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Rough Violet Ground Beetle

Carabus problematicus

2,265Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
88Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan37
Feb54
Mar95
Apr151
May279
Jun336
Jul305
Aug266
Sep351
Oct177
Nov45
Dec28

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland256
2Devon England240
3Powys Wales97
4Cumbria England96
5Norfolk England76
6North Yorkshire England72
7Worcestershire England67
8Surrey England61
9Argyll and Bute Scotland59
10Aberdeenshire Scotland40
11Dumfries and Galloway Scotland35
12Perth and Kinross Scotland35
13Cambridgeshire England34
14Suffolk England31
15Gwynedd Wales31
1,415 England597 Scotland208 Wales33 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 88 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,265
Peak month
September
Counties with records
88
Scientific name
Carabus problematicus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,078
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Carabus
Name with authority
Carabus problematicus Herbst, 1786
Described
1786
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q535578 · GBIF 4470555