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Common Tachinid

Tachina fera

8,124Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
105Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb1
Mar2
Apr150
May1,153
Jun559
Jul606
Aug3,147
Sep1,744
Oct501
Nov47
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England430
2Worcestershire England379
3Northamptonshire England281
4Kent England251
5Suffolk England240
6Oxfordshire England234
7Cambridgeshire England169
8Surrey England169
9Rutland England107
10Cheshire East England106
11Lincolnshire England103
12Nottinghamshire England97
13Essex England94
14Herefordshire, County of England93
15Dorset England91
7,459 England361 Scotland289 Wales5 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 105 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,124
Peak month
August
Counties with records
105
Scientific name
Tachina fera
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,298
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Tachina
Name with authority
Tachina fera (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1634197 · GBIF 5978844