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Delicate Sedgesitter

Platycheirus angustatus

872Records since 2000
JunePeak month
73Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr8
May122
Jun261
Jul217
Aug137
Sep45
Oct2
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England65
2Norfolk England60
3Highland Scotland31
4Gwynedd Wales30
5North Yorkshire England26
6Cumbria England26
7Warrington England25
8Dorset England23
9Cambridgeshire England20
10Northamptonshire England19
11Oxfordshire England16
12Pembrokeshire Wales14
13Sheffield England14
14Nottinghamshire England11
15Cheshire East England11
666 England104 Scotland100 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 73 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
872
Peak month
June
Counties with records
73
Scientific name
Platycheirus angustatus
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
862
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Norfolk
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Platycheirus
Name with authority
Platycheirus angustatus (Zetterstedt, 1843)
Described
1843
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2744580 · GBIF 1543227