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Snail Hunter

Cychrus caraboides

1,291Records since 2000
JunePeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan40
Feb50
Mar74
Apr83
May115
Jun227
Jul164
Aug218
Sep115
Oct56
Nov35
Dec30

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland137
2Lincolnshire England56
3Worcestershire England55
4Norfolk England49
5Powys Wales44
6Devon England41
7North Yorkshire England32
8Fife Scotland30
9Essex England26
10Cumbria England23
11Surrey England20
12Dumfries and Galloway Scotland19
13Orkney Islands Scotland19
14Suffolk England18
15Gwynedd Wales18
823 England330 Scotland105 Wales22 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,291
Peak month
June
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Cychrus caraboides
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,225
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Cychrus
Name with authority
Cychrus caraboides (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
39

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1302515 · GBIF 5753612