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Striped Millipede

Ommatoiulus sabulosus

727Records since 2000
JunePeak month
69Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar9
Apr66
May173
Jun195
Jul106
Aug88
Sep37
Oct11
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland107
2Devon England52
3Cornwall England51
4Argyll and Bute Scotland34
5Sefton England25
6Pembrokeshire Wales24
7Gwynedd Wales21
8Norfolk England18
9Ceredigion Wales13
10Worcestershire England12
11Perth and Kinross Scotland11
12Aberdeen City Scotland11
13City of Edinburgh Scotland10
14East Lothian Scotland10
15Aberdeenshire Scotland9
262 England255 Scotland105 Wales41 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
727
Peak month
June
Counties with records
69
Scientific name
Ommatoiulus sabulosus
Group
Millipedes
NBN Atlas records since 2000
499
Most recorded in
Highland, Devon, Cornwall
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Diplopoda
Order
Julida
Family
Julidae
Genus
Ommatoiulus
Name with authority
Ommatoiulus sabulosus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2221316 · GBIF 1012292