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Culicoides chiopterus

1,181Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
23Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr35
May6
Jun5
Jul7
Aug6
Sep19
Oct26
Nov4
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England512
2Carmarthenshire Wales12
3North Yorkshire England8
4Aberdeenshire Scotland6
5East Ayrshire Scotland6
6Kent England5
7Somerset England5
8Orkney Islands Scotland5
9Shetland Islands —4
10Oxfordshire England2
11Milton Keynes England2
12Norfolk England1
13Cornwall England1
14Essex England1
15Lincolnshire England1
32 England7 Scotland6 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 23 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,181
Peak month
April
Counties with records
23
Group
True flies
Most recorded in
Devon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Ceratopogonidae
Genus
Culicoides
Name with authority
Culicoides chiopterus (Meigen, 1830)
Described
1830
Contributing datasets
5

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13631611 · GBIF 1632375