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Common scorpionfly

Panorpa communis

766Records since 2000
JunePeak month
64Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr1
May177
Jun343
Jul158
Aug48
Sep11
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England44
2Surrey England32
3Essex England31
4Kent England25
5Oxfordshire England22
6Norfolk England21
7York England18
8North Yorkshire England17
9Cheshire East England15
10Gwynedd Wales14
11Suffolk England13
12Devon England12
13Lincolnshire England10
14Worcestershire England10
15Cumbria England10
642 England44 Scotland60 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 64 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
766
Peak month
June
Counties with records
64
Scientific name
Panorpa communis
Group
Other insects
NBN Atlas records since 2000
306
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Mecoptera
Family
Panorpidae
Genus
Panorpa
Name with authority
Panorpa communis Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q127008 · GBIF 5742495