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Weevil

Polydrusus formosus

1,872Records since 2000
MayPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar0
Apr54
May693
Jun676
Jul264
Aug118
Sep39
Oct8
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England86
2Surrey England60
3Norfolk England52
4Sefton England50
5Lincolnshire England48
6City of Edinburgh Scotland47
7Somerset England42
8Cambridgeshire England35
9York England34
10Oxfordshire England32
11Glasgow City Scotland32
12Essex England31
13Cheshire East England27
14Bristol, City of England23
15Warrington England21
1,597 England136 Scotland103 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,872
Peak month
May
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Polydrusus formosus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,284
Most recorded in
Kent, Surrey, Norfolk, Sefton
Conservation designations
Rare and scarce (non-IUCN status)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Polydrusus
Name with authority
Polydrusus formosus (Mayer, 1779)
Described
1779
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q7226300 · GBIF 4468015