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Summer Chafer

Amphimallon solstitiale

1,690Records since 2000
JunePeak month
50Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May10
Jun852
Jul792
Aug24
Sep2
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England128
2Oxfordshire England84
3Suffolk England73
4Kent England70
5Lincolnshire England66
6Surrey England53
7Nottinghamshire England47
8Cambridgeshire England46
9Brighton and Hove England32
10Essex England31
11Dorset England29
12Gloucestershire England25
13Cornwall England21
14Bracknell Forest England21
15Devon England17
1,651 England37 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 50 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,690
Peak month
June
Counties with records
50
Scientific name
Amphimallon solstitiale
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,599
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Scarabaeidae
Genus
Amphimallon
Name with authority
Amphimallon solstitiale (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q768766 · GBIF 1063891