🇬🇫Animals recorded in French Guiana

Which animals have been recorded in French Guiana? 38,210 occurrence records cover 1,200+ species. The most-recorded are listed below, with what the record pattern says about each one. 212 is the most-recorded animal class; the leading species records include Coquillettidia venezuelensis, Deinocerites magnus, Culex portesi.

• 38,210 records
• 1,200+ species
• 40 classes

Country evidence passport

The most-recorded species in this dataset include Coquillettidia venezuelensis, Deinocerites magnus, Culex portesi. Use the country list as evidence of recorded wildlife, then open a species to compare its records across other countries and months. It is not a complete habitat or population census.

Most-recorded animals in French Guiana

	Animal	Group	Records
	Coquillettidia venezuelensis	Insecta Culicidae	4,471
	Deinocerites magnus	Insecta Culicidae	3,354
	Culex portesi	Insecta Culicidae	1,496
	black salt marsh mosquitto Aedes taeniorhynchus	Insecta Culicidae	782
	Culex rabanicolus	Insecta Culicidae	646
	Culex longistriatus	Insecta Culicidae	417
	Culex declarator	Insecta Culicidae	224
	Mansonia titillans	Insecta Culicidae	207
	Culex idottus	Insecta Culicidae	173
	Culex amazonensis	Insecta Culicidae	143
	Leatherback Dermochelys coriacea	Testudines Dermochelyidae	143
	Culex eastor	Insecta Culicidae	111
	Uranotaenia lowii	Insecta Culicidae	110
	Uranotaenia leucoptera	Insecta Culicidae	106
	southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasciatus	Insecta Culicidae	100
	Uranotaenia geometrica	Insecta Culicidae	91
	Cylindrotermes parvignathus	Insecta Termitidae	84
	Army ant Eciton burchellii	Insecta Formicidae	83
	Heterotermes tenuis	Insecta Rhinotermitidae	78
	Eciton drepanophorum	Insecta Formicidae	76
	Uranotaenia apicalis	Insecta Culicidae	73
	Artemita hieroglyphica	Insecta Stratiomyidae	72
	Uranotaenia nataliae	Insecta Culicidae	67
	Eciton hamatum	Insecta Formicidae	61
	Culex ernsti	Insecta Culicidae	61
	yellow fever mosquito Aedes aegypti	Insecta Culicidae	56
	Achilles morpho Morpho achilles	Insecta Nymphalidae	54
	Nasutitermes similis	Insecta Termitidae	50
	Nasutitermes gaigei	Insecta Termitidae	43
	Heliconius melpomene xenoclea Heliconius melpomene	Insecta Nymphalidae	42
	Desicasta lobata	Insecta Scarabaeidae	41
	Tropical mosquito Aedeomyia squamipennis	Insecta Culicidae	37
	Rhescyntis hippodamia	Insecta Saturniidae	37
	Titaea tamerlan	Insecta Saturniidae	34
	Gymnetis bajula	Insecta Scarabaeidae	32
	Galgupha chilocoroides	Insecta Thyreocoridae	31
	Sylvicanthon seag	Insecta Scarabaeidae	29
	Bates's Olivewing Nessaea batesii	Insecta Nymphalidae	29
	Eciton vagans	Insecta Formicidae	28
	giant silk moth Arsenura armida	Insecta Saturniidae	28
	Hygrochroa satellitia	Insecta Apatelodidae	28
	Erato Heliconian Heliconius erato	Insecta Nymphalidae	28
	Galgupha rasilis	Insecta Thyreocoridae	27
	Main vector of Leishmania guyanensis Nyssomyia umbratilis	Insecta Psychodidae	27
	Culex phlogistus	Insecta Culicidae	27
	Culex vomerifer	Insecta Culicidae	27
	Pseudosubulina theoripkeni	Gastropoda Spiraxidae	26
	Blue Morpho Butterfly Morpho menelaus	Insecta Nymphalidae	25
	Artemita amenides	Insecta Stratiomyidae	24
	Turquoise Cracker Hamadryas arinome	Insecta Nymphalidae	24
	Fringed Phora Lyroconus plagioptycha	Gastropoda Thysanophoridae	24
	Limatus durhamii	Insecta Culicidae	23
	Carineta rufescens	Insecta Cicadidae	23
	Culex contei	Insecta Culicidae	23
	Culex pedroi	Insecta Culicidae	22
	Rhescyntis hermes	Insecta Saturniidae	22
	Arsenura ponderosa	Insecta Saturniidae	22
	Epierus planulus	Insecta Histeridae	22
	Guyalna bicolor	Insecta Cicadidae	22
	Taperinha zanolae	Insecta Cicadellidae	22