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Black-tailed Aphideater

Eupeodes luniger

6,458Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
116Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb11
Mar142
Apr1,090
May716
Jun989
Jul1,062
Aug734
Sep961
Oct411
Nov112
Dec15

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England227
2Oxfordshire England213
3Northamptonshire England198
4Worcestershire England187
5Sefton England181
6Cambridgeshire England170
7Milton Keynes England166
8Kent England141
9Suffolk England133
10Rutland England120
11Peterborough England92
12North Yorkshire England85
13East Riding of Yorkshire England83
14Essex England83
15North Tyneside England82
5,895 England253 Scotland178 Wales60 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 116 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,458
Peak month
April
Counties with records
116
Scientific name
Eupeodes luniger
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,590
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Eupeodes
Name with authority
Eupeodes luniger (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1767228 · GBIF 1540875