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Four-spotted cranefly

Nephrotoma quadrifaria

2,050Records since 2000
JunePeak month
94Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr8
May473
Jun941
Jul468
Aug32
Sep7
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England164
2Worcestershire England149
3Northamptonshire England113
4Cambridgeshire England82
5Norfolk England69
6Warrington England69
7Devon England52
8Surrey England43
9Oxfordshire England42
10Telford and Wrekin England42
11Essex England33
12Peterborough England33
13North Yorkshire England29
14Cumbria England23
15Suffolk England21
1,850 England78 Scotland101 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 94 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,050
Peak month
June
Counties with records
94
Scientific name
Nephrotoma quadrifaria
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,896
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tipulidae
Genus
Nephrotoma
Name with authority
Nephrotoma quadrifaria (Meigen, 1804)
Described
1804
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1883450 · GBIF 1509316