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Woodland Dor Beetle

Anoplotrupes stercorosus

711Records since 2000
SeptemberPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar3
Apr56
May119
Jun96
Jul89
Aug124
Sep132
Oct72
Nov10
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland86
2Gloucestershire England62
3Devon England40
4Cumbria England37
5Stirling Scotland37
6Argyll and Bute Scotland35
7Dumfries and Galloway Scotland28
8Aberdeenshire Scotland25
9Perth and Kinross Scotland24
10Cornwall England21
11Monmouthshire Wales16
12Worcestershire England14
13Somerset England13
14Powys Wales12
15Gwynedd Wales11
353 England278 Scotland66 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
711
Peak month
September
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Anoplotrupes stercorosus
Group
Beetles
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,894
Most recorded in
Highland, Gloucestershire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Coleoptera
Family
Geotrupidae
Genus
Anoplotrupes
Name with authority
Anoplotrupes stercorosus (Hartmann, 1791)
Described
1791
Contributing datasets
5

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1314196 · GBIF 1071240