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Cheilosia variabilis

1,169Records since 2000
MayPeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar5
Apr112
May618
Jun235
Jul103
Aug10
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gwynedd Wales85
2Worcestershire England79
3East Riding of Yorkshire England50
4Oxfordshire England46
5Norfolk England39
6Northamptonshire England35
7East Lothian Scotland27
8Cornwall England26
9North Yorkshire England26
10Highland Scotland23
11Milton Keynes England22
12Kent England21
13Cumbria England19
14Sheffield England14
15Dorset England13
910 England99 Scotland139 Wales10 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,169
Peak month
May
Counties with records
78
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,055
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Cheilosia
Name with authority
Cheilosia variabilis (Panzer, 1798)
Described
1798
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2747680 · GBIF 1540086