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Silpha atrata

2,964Records since 2000
MayPeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan82
Feb153
Mar265
Apr414
May521
Jun376
Jul297
Aug196
Sep173
Oct153
Nov76
Dec67

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland125
2Norfolk England120
3Worcestershire England107
4North Yorkshire England94
5Cambridgeshire England90
6Devon England85
7Kent England68
8Surrey England63
9Oxfordshire England55
10Orkney Islands Scotland51
11Nottinghamshire England50
12Fife Scotland50
13Cumbria England49
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland48
15Isle of Anglesey Wales45
1,890 England564 Scotland271 Wales155 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,964
Peak month
May
Counties with records
94
Group
Beetles
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Staphylinidae
Genus
Silpha
Name with authority
Silpha atrata Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 6546084