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Common Mourning Bee

Melecta albifrons

1,080Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar110
Apr659
May246
Jun36
Jul1
Aug5
Sep2
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England85
2Northamptonshire England50
3Rutland England47
4Cambridgeshire England45
5Kent England42
6Oxfordshire England31
7Suffolk England27
8Worcestershire England26
9Lincolnshire England24
10Essex England21
11North Yorkshire England20
12Surrey England17
13Devon England15
14East Riding of Yorkshire England13
15Cornwall England12
1,055 England25 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,080
Peak month
April
Counties with records
52
Scientific name
Melecta albifrons
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,000
Most recorded in
Norfolk, Northamptonshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Apidae
Genus
Melecta
Name with authority
Melecta albifrons (Forster, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1500706 · GBIF 1345296