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Common Flower Fly

Syrphus ribesii

11,730Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb4
Mar21
Apr887
May1,167
Jun1,554
Jul2,496
Aug1,883
Sep2,355
Oct869
Nov129
Dec9

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England418
2Norfolk England373
3Northamptonshire England368
4Worcestershire England349
5Cumbria England283
6Aberdeenshire Scotland257
7Leeds England211
8Cambridgeshire England202
9North Yorkshire England182
10Cheshire East England180
11City of Edinburgh Scotland176
12Sefton England165
13Kent England161
14Suffolk England153
15Highland Scotland149
9,254 England1,488 Scotland652 Wales124 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
11,730
Peak month
July
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Syrphus ribesii
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,045
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Syrphus
Name with authority
Syrphus ribesii (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1548397 · GBIF 1537266