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Year described
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Dorset
Species recorded in Dorset
1,102
species
Dorset
— county
Yellow Legged Mining Bee
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,875
White Letter Hairstreak
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,866
Smittia pratorum
Group
True flies
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
2,852
Pertusaria pertusa
Group
Lichens
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,835
Common Script Lichen
Group
Lichens
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
2,809
Bog-moss Flapwort
Group
Liverworts
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,799
American Thintail
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,783
Common Pill Woodlouse
Group
Crustaceans
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,783
Chaetocladius piger
Group
True flies
Peak month
February
Records since 2000
2,768
Bloody-nosed Beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,765
Paraphaenocladius impensus
Group
True flies
Peak month
October
Records since 2000
2,755
Dotted Bee-fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,727
Mottled Grasshopper
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,707
Little Snipefly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,646
Pseudosmittia trilobata
Group
True flies
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,646
Small Yellow Sedge
Group
Caddisflies
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,644
Common Comfrey
Group
Flowering plants
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,637
Pomace fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,587
White-legged harp ground beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,577
Opomyza germinationis
Group
True flies
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,572
Wart lichen
Group
Fungi
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,571
Lesser Scaup
Group
Birds
Peak month
March
Records since 2000
2,556
Culicoides impunctatus
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,552
Phaonia tuguriorum
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,549
Oil beetle
Group
Beetles
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,548
Yellow-wort
Group
Flowering plants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,540
Hoary Plantain
Group
Flowering plants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,534
Dwarf weaver
Group
Spiders
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,531
Campylomyza flavipes
Group
True flies
Peak month
December
Records since 2000
2,470
Kohuhu
Group
Flowering plants
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,461
Brown Hairstreak
Group
Butterflies and moths
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,458
Hoary Rosette Lichen
Group
Lichens
Peak month
April
Records since 2000
2,424
Agonum fuliginosum
Group
Beetles
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,422
Aphelocheirus aestivalis
Group
True bugs
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,422
Psychoda grisescens
Group
True flies
Peak month
February
Records since 2000
2,409
Brook Lamprey
Group
Fish
Peak month
September
Records since 2000
2,399
Dark-winged Black
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,393
Great Green Bush Cricket
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,380
Lined Spittlebug
Group
True bugs
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,379
Short-winged Conehead
Group
Grasshoppers and crickets
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,376
Pebbled Pixie-cup
Group
Lichens
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,374
Calcareous rimmed lichen
Group
Lichens
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,373
Fuscidea lightfootii
Group
Lichens
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,354
Seaside Daisy
Group
Flowering plants
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,353
Wrinkled Snail
Group
Molluscs
Peak month
June
Records since 2000
2,323
Common Tiger Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
August
Records since 2000
2,317
Face Fly
Group
True flies
Peak month
July
Records since 2000
2,314
Great Horsetail
Group
Ferns and horsetails
Peak month
May
Records since 2000
2,294
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