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Fourspot Sedgesitter

Pyrophaena rosarum

1,424Records since 2000
JunePeak month
87Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr5
May194
Jun403
Jul386
Aug316
Sep32
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England117
2Dorset England92
3Cumbria England87
4Worcestershire England75
5Cheshire East England28
6North Yorkshire England27
7Argyll and Bute Scotland27
8Ceredigion Wales26
9Kent England25
10Oxfordshire England23
11Devon England22
12Gwynedd Wales21
13Highland Scotland20
14Cambridgeshire England18
15Somerset England16
1,101 England156 Scotland126 Wales20 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 87 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,424
Peak month
June
Counties with records
87
Scientific name
Pyrophaena rosarum
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Pyrophaena
Name with authority
Pyrophaena rosarum (Fabricius, 1787)
Described
1787
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10809780 · GBIF 4294542