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Spitting Click Beetle

Agriotes sputator

958Records since 2000
MayPeak month
49Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb8
Mar39
Apr127
May288
Jun246
Jul125
Aug39
Sep2
Oct0
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England94
2Lincolnshire England56
3Kent England55
4Norfolk England49
5Surrey England47
6Essex England46
7Devon England37
8Oxfordshire England33
9Thurrock England26
10Somerset England24
11Suffolk England23
12Bath and North East Somerset England21
13Pembrokeshire Wales18
14Milton Keynes England16
15Nottinghamshire England14
829 England2 Scotland64 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
958
Peak month
May
Counties with records
49
Scientific name
Agriotes sputator
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
884
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire, Lincolnshire, Kent
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Elateridae
Genus
Agriotes
Name with authority
Agriotes sputator (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2403888 · GBIF 5878766