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Weevil

Mecinus pyraster

654Records since 2000
MayPeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb2
Mar28
Apr61
May181
Jun150
Jul95
Aug46
Sep28
Oct8
Nov5
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Lincolnshire England32
2Kent England28
3Isle of Anglesey Wales27
4Surrey England21
5Norfolk England19
6Essex England16
7Cambridgeshire England12
8Oxfordshire England12
9Cornwall England12
10Worcestershire England12
11Gwynedd Wales12
12Nottinghamshire England11
13Pembrokeshire Wales11
14Devon England10
15Carmarthenshire Wales10
533 England23 Scotland94 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
654
Peak month
May
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Mecinus pyraster
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
613
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Curculionidae
Genus
Mecinus
Name with authority
Mecinus pyraster (J.F.W.Herbst, 1795)
Described
1795
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q18474619 · GBIF 1197449