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Spring harp ground beetle

Pterostichus vernalis

1,572Records since 2000
MayPeak month
69Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan80
Feb105
Mar128
Apr140
May236
Jun216
Jul154
Aug82
Sep61
Oct46
Nov97
Dec51

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England175
2Somerset England72
3Norfolk England71
4Lincolnshire England59
5Devon England50
6Suffolk England47
7Worcestershire England42
8Powys Wales42
9Dorset England39
10Carmarthenshire Wales35
11Kent England29
12Wakefield England28
13Oxfordshire England25
14Northamptonshire England22
15Gloucestershire England19
1,361 England36 Scotland153 Wales19 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 69 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,572
Peak month
May
Counties with records
69
Scientific name
Pterostichus vernalis
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,562
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Carabidae
Genus
Pterostichus
Name with authority
Pterostichus vernalis (Panzer, 1796)
Described
1796
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q11705719 · GBIF 7975487