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Bare-saddled Blood Bee

Sphecodes ephippius

706Records since 2000
MayPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar4
Apr87
May157
Jun120
Jul110
Aug79
Sep17
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England136
2Norfolk England42
3Cambridgeshire England28
4Powys Wales27
5Suffolk England19
6Oxfordshire England17
7Surrey England15
8Kent England14
9Lincolnshire England13
10Northamptonshire England13
11Gwynedd Wales13
12Dorset England12
13Swansea Wales12
14Rutland England8
15East Riding of Yorkshire England7
608 England2 Scotland77 Wales2 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
706
Peak month
May
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Sphecodes ephippius
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
690
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Halictidae
Genus
Sphecodes
Name with authority
Sphecodes ephippius (Linnaeus, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3075480 · GBIF 1351470