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Common Dainty

Baccha elongata

2,957Records since 2000
MayPeak month
101Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr502
May645
Jun420
Jul507
Aug359
Sep241
Oct82
Nov19
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England166
2Norfolk England137
3Sefton England71
4Cambridgeshire England65
5Northamptonshire England55
6Oxfordshire England54
7Warrington England53
8Highland Scotland52
9Sheffield England51
10Kent England50
11Devon England40
12Cumbria England39
13Cheshire East England37
14Essex England29
15Milton Keynes England29
2,471 England228 Scotland159 Wales51 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 101 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,957
Peak month
May
Counties with records
101
Scientific name
Baccha elongata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,604
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Baccha
Name with authority
Baccha elongata (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500688 · GBIF 1536559