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Common Sedgesitter

Platycheirus clypeatus

2,619Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
103Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr87
May347
Jun460
Jul847
Aug477
Sep192
Oct9
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England206
2Worcestershire England164
3Cumbria England132
4Highland Scotland109
5North Yorkshire England102
6Cambridgeshire England73
7Cornwall England68
8Northamptonshire England60
9Warrington England59
10Isle of Anglesey Wales59
11Swansea Wales56
12Oxfordshire England47
13Dorset England43
14East Riding of Yorkshire England40
15Lincolnshire England38
1,959 England306 Scotland328 Wales18 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 103 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,619
Peak month
July
Counties with records
103
Scientific name
Platycheirus clypeatus
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,326
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Platycheirus
Name with authority
Platycheirus clypeatus (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1765372 · GBIF 1543183