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Spotted diving beetle

Agabus guttatus

846Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
45Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan10
Feb29
Mar52
Apr147
May120
Jun103
Jul108
Aug54
Sep99
Oct77
Nov30
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England181
2Sheffield England66
3Highland Scotland58
4Calderdale England34
5Kirklees England23
6Cumbria England22
7Nottinghamshire England22
8Gwynedd Wales21
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland21
10Rotherham England18
11Lincolnshire England10
12Worcestershire England8
13Bradford England8
14Isle of Anglesey Wales7
15Stirling Scotland7
691 England90 Scotland43 Wales13 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 45 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
846
Peak month
April
Counties with records
45
Scientific name
Agabus guttatus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
846
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dytiscidae
Genus
Agabus
Name with authority
Agabus guttatus (Paykull, 1798)
Described
1798
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2740732 · GBIF 4469878