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Brown-toed Forest Fly

Xylota segnis

9,719Records since 2000
JunePeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr356
May2,134
Jun2,538
Jul1,842
Aug1,593
Sep740
Oct144
Nov7
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England403
2Norfolk England384
3Highland Scotland312
4Gwynedd Wales282
5Devon England252
6North Yorkshire England225
7Cumbria England225
8Oxfordshire England201
9Kent England183
10Argyll and Bute Scotland163
11Sefton England141
12Cheshire East England127
13Powys Wales115
14Cambridgeshire England114
15Suffolk England114
7,076 England1,377 Scotland1,031 Wales138 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,719
Peak month
June
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Xylota segnis
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,671
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Xylota
Name with authority
Xylota segnis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1576886 · GBIF 1541562