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Bare-winged Halfband

Melangyna umbellatarum

700Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
74Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May33
Jun73
Jul188
Aug297
Sep66
Oct3
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England41
2Sefton England34
3Cumbria England32
4Oxfordshire England30
5Cheshire East England19
6Cambridgeshire England17
7North Tyneside England17
8Lincolnshire England15
9Peterborough England14
10City of Edinburgh Scotland13
11Devon England12
12Norfolk England11
13North Yorkshire England11
14Carmarthenshire Wales10
15Gwynedd Wales9
581 England58 Scotland49 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 74 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
700
Peak month
August
Counties with records
74
Scientific name
Melangyna umbellatarum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
635
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Melangyna
Name with authority
Melangyna umbellatarum (Fabricius, 1794)
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2746283 · GBIF 1536635