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Empis tessellata

1,357Records since 2000
MayPeak month
85Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr88
May724
Jun360
Jul87
Aug29
Sep9
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland140
2Cambridgeshire England82
3Gwynedd Wales58
4Worcestershire England52
5Devon England48
6Stirling Scotland47
7Isle of Anglesey Wales43
8Dorset England37
9Essex England31
10Cornwall England30
11Argyll and Bute Scotland30
12Oxfordshire England27
13Lincolnshire England27
14Suffolk England26
15North Yorkshire England20
712 England333 Scotland172 Wales8 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 85 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,357
Peak month
May
Counties with records
85
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,690
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Empididae
Genus
Empis
Name with authority
Empis tessellata Fabricius, 1794
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2469727 · GBIF 1583544