About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. A cranefly
Species · True flies

A cranefly

Dictenidia bimaculata

232Records since 2000
JunePeak month
34Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May47
Jun112
Jul34
Aug12
Sep0
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Northamptonshire England27
2Devon England20
3Worcestershire England14
4East Riding of Yorkshire England11
5Essex England10
6Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland8
7Norfolk England7
8Oxfordshire England7
9Derry City and Strabane Northern Ireland7
10Highland Scotland6
11Cambridgeshire England5
12North Yorkshire England4
13Gloucestershire England4
14Argyll and Bute Scotland4
15Powys Wales4
199 England12 Scotland5 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 34 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
232
Peak month
June
Counties with records
34
Scientific name
Dictenidia bimaculata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
225
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tipulidae
Genus
Dictenidia
Name with authority
Dictenidia bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1760)
Described
1760

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q149135 · GBIF 1507718