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Varied Carpet Beetle

Anthrenus verbasci

2,765Records since 2000
JunePeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan26
Feb104
Mar318
Apr435
May726
Jun850
Jul183
Aug32
Sep12
Oct20
Nov14
Dec11

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England83
2Cambridgeshire England82
3Essex England80
4Oxfordshire England69
5Sheffield England68
6City of Edinburgh Scotland61
7Surrey England59
8Kent England55
9Worcestershire England55
10Peterborough England53
11Norfolk England51
12York England50
13Sefton England43
14Suffolk England41
15Northamptonshire England31
2,560 England106 Scotland81 Wales9 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,765
Peak month
June
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Anthrenus verbasci
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,235
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Dermestidae
Genus
Anthrenus
Name with authority
Anthrenus verbasci (Linnaeus, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q968176 · GBIF 1095895