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Dull-backed Sedgesitter

Platycheirus manicatus

1,956Records since 2000
MayPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr127
May627
Jun303
Jul377
Aug376
Sep67
Oct8
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Angus Scotland157
2Gloucestershire England139
3Cambridgeshire England80
4Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland70
5Highland Scotland64
6Lincolnshire England59
7Worcestershire England57
8East Lothian Scotland55
9Suffolk England54
10Northamptonshire England52
11Cumbria England50
12Orkney Islands Scotland44
13East Riding of Yorkshire England37
14North Yorkshire England37
15Fife Scotland37
1,228 England641 Scotland55 Wales16 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,956
Peak month
May
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Platycheirus manicatus
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,786
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Platycheirus
Name with authority
Platycheirus manicatus (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2744990 · GBIF 1543197