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Chaoborus flavicans

1,393Records since 2000
JunePeak month
21Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb7
Mar1
Apr48
May333
Jun509
Jul206
Aug245
Sep25
Oct5
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland608
2Somerset England151
3Carmarthenshire Wales128
4Essex England77
5Suffolk England64
6Norfolk England30
7North Yorkshire England24
8Cambridgeshire England19
9Gwynedd Wales6
10Surrey England4
11Lincolnshire England4
12Doncaster England4
13Oxfordshire England2
14West Berkshire England2
15Warrington England2
325 England1 Scotland77 Wales304 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 21 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,393
Peak month
June
Counties with records
21
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
703
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chaoboridae
Genus
Chaoborus
Name with authority
Chaoborus flavicans (Meigen, 1830)
Described
1830
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13851356 · GBIF 1679392