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Silver Sedge

Odontocerum albicorne

13,603Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan76
Feb48
Mar924
Apr1,638
May1,500
Jun367
Jul771
Aug599
Sep1,934
Oct1,568
Nov660
Dec72

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England1,312
2Devon England1,219
3Powys Wales1,051
4North Yorkshire England681
5Cornwall England560
6Pembrokeshire Wales512
7Carmarthenshire Wales478
8Somerset England460
9Gwynedd Wales432
10Ceredigion Wales387
11Denbighshire Wales290
12Perth and Kinross Scotland283
13Dorset England282
14Gloucestershire England233
15Worcestershire England204
7,972 England1,470 Scotland4,104 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
13,603
Peak month
September
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Odontocerum albicorne
Group
Caddisflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
13,540
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Odontoceridae
Genus
Odontocerum
Name with authority
Odontocerum albicorne (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1313773 · GBIF 1437449