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Shore Sexton Beetle

Necrodes littoralis

1,110Records since 2000
MayPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb3
Mar5
Apr41
May271
Jun120
Jul204
Aug252
Sep151
Oct51
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England115
2Argyll and Bute Scotland73
3Highland Scotland66
4Suffolk England55
5Cambridgeshire England39
6Gloucestershire England36
7Devon England30
8Cumbria England28
9Oxfordshire England27
10Carmarthenshire Wales22
11Lincolnshire England19
12Essex England18
13East Riding of Yorkshire England16
14Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland16
15Surrey England13
796 England207 Scotland76 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,110
Peak month
May
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Necrodes littoralis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,039
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Necrodes
Name with authority
Necrodes littoralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1513538 · GBIF 4448429