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Downland Bee-fly

Villa cingulata

791Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
17Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun271
Jul446
Aug68
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England156
2Oxfordshire England82
3Bath and North East Somerset England47
4Dorset England27
5Surrey England25
6Somerset England9
7Herefordshire, County of England9
8Monmouthshire Wales8
9West Berkshire England7
10Bristol, City of England7
11Isle of Wight England6
12Kent England4
13Essex England4
14Worcestershire England3
15Devon England1
770 England10 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 17 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
791
Peak month
July
Counties with records
17
Scientific name
Villa cingulata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
760
Most recorded in
Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Rare and scarce species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Bombyliidae
Genus
Villa
Name with authority
Villa cingulata (Meigen, 1804)
Described
1804
Contributing datasets
7

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14166284 · GBIF 1671671