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Bright Four-spined Legionnaire

Chorisops nagatomii

648Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
61Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun6
Jul76
Aug342
Sep177
Oct2
Nov6
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England47
2Devon England39
3City of Edinburgh Scotland39
4Norfolk England31
5Kent England27
6Worcestershire England25
7Suffolk England23
8Dorset England20
9Essex England16
10Cambridgeshire England14
11Somerset England11
12Rutland England11
13Oxfordshire England10
14Wrexham Wales10
15Gloucestershire England9
572 England41 Scotland29 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 61 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
648
Peak month
August
Counties with records
61
Scientific name
Chorisops nagatomii
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
624
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Rare and scarce species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Chorisops
Name with authority
Chorisops nagatomii Rozkošný, 1979
Described
1979
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5105078 · GBIF 1578209