🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Berosus vitticollis live?

Berosus vitticollis has 2,342 records in 10 countries and territories, from 1963 to 2012. Most records come from Namibia.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaColeopteraHydrophilidaeBerosus

When it is recorded

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Peak month: February. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
Namibia 1,695
South Sudan 458
Sudan 88
Nigeria 51
Madagascar 42
Burkina Faso 2
Tanzania 2
Uganda 2
Benin 1
Niger 1
Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.