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Common Copperback

Ferdinandea cuprea

2,218Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
91Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar21
Apr165
May353
Jun233
Jul250
Aug716
Sep331
Oct30
Nov5
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England122
2Kent England119
3Worcestershire England111
4Gloucestershire England102
5Oxfordshire England101
6Gwynedd Wales77
7Herefordshire, County of England47
8Cumbria England44
9Highland Scotland42
10Norfolk England40
11Cambridgeshire England32
12Surrey England30
13Sefton England30
14Dorset England28
15North Yorkshire England28
1,792 England155 Scotland227 Wales21 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 91 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,218
Peak month
August
Counties with records
91
Scientific name
Ferdinandea cuprea
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,032
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Ferdinandea
Name with authority
Ferdinandea cuprea (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2748776 · GBIF 1542979