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Common Orange Legionnaire

Beris vallata

4,139Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
104Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May104
Jun1,743
Jul1,896
Aug164
Sep22
Oct1
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England254
2Devon England253
3Surrey England182
4Kent England169
5Dorset England169
6Worcestershire England162
7Cambridgeshire England107
8Somerset England79
9Cornwall England74
10North Yorkshire England69
11Gwynedd Wales58
12Cumbria England56
13Suffolk England51
14Ceredigion Wales51
15Swansea Wales51
3,576 England199 Scotland338 Wales24 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 104 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,139
Peak month
July
Counties with records
104
Scientific name
Beris vallata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,118
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Beris
Name with authority
Beris vallata (Forster, 1770)
Described
1770
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4891879 · GBIF 1580578