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Common Green Colonel

Oplodontha viridula

2,246Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
63Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar2
Apr5
May105
Jun711
Jul968
Aug96
Sep39
Oct199
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England628
2Cambridgeshire England304
3Kent England113
4Isle of Anglesey Wales94
5Somerset England91
6Swansea Wales82
7Suffolk England56
8Surrey England41
9Essex England40
10Worcestershire England36
11East Riding of Yorkshire England32
12Oxfordshire England30
13Devon England29
14Gwynedd Wales28
15Dorset England27
1,938 England10 Scotland286 Wales4 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 63 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,246
Peak month
July
Counties with records
63
Scientific name
Oplodontha viridula
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,220
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Oplodontha
Name with authority
Oplodontha viridula (Fabricius, 1775)
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q646210 · GBIF 1577359