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Sooty mud dweller

Ilybius fuliginosus

1,757Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
77Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb1
Mar18
Apr67
May178
Jun356
Jul400
Aug279
Sep238
Oct133
Nov12
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England173
2Nottinghamshire England152
3East Riding of Yorkshire England103
4Dumfries and Galloway Scotland93
5Doncaster England73
6Norfolk England72
7Cumbria England57
8Lincolnshire England55
9Worcestershire England49
10North Lincolnshire England48
11Highland Scotland32
12Cambridgeshire England31
13Rotherham England31
14Ceredigion Wales29
15Sheffield England26
1,391 England212 Scotland87 Wales57 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 77 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,757
Peak month
July
Counties with records
77
Scientific name
Ilybius fuliginosus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,804
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Ilybius
Name with authority
Ilybius fuliginosus (Fabricius, 1792)
Described
1792
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1948856 · GBIF 1038778