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Springtail

Entomobrya nivalis

4,070Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan266
Feb260
Mar200
Apr190
May179
Jun299
Jul356
Aug647
Sep395
Oct215
Nov464
Dec381

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Somerset England1,013
2North Yorkshire England542
3Highland Scotland394
4Aberdeen City Scotland313
5Worcestershire England184
6Devon England142
7Cambridgeshire England137
8East Ayrshire Scotland102
9Argyll and Bute Scotland66
10Essex England61
11Oxfordshire England37
12Carmarthenshire Wales36
13Moray Scotland30
14Doncaster England29
15Telford and Wrekin England27
1,643 England783 Scotland25 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,070
Peak month
August
Counties with records
52
Scientific name
Entomobrya nivalis
Group
Springtails
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,259
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Collembola
Order
Entomobryomorpha
Family
Entomobryidae
Genus
Entomobrya
Name with authority
Entomobrya nivalis (C.Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 10915874