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Frit Fly

Oscinella frit

556Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May23
Jun70
Jul197
Aug158
Sep60
Oct3
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England112
2Leeds England28
3Devon England26
4Norfolk England21
5Carmarthenshire Wales20
6Worcestershire England19
7Suffolk England18
8Dorset England15
9Swansea Wales15
10Dundee City Scotland15
11North Lincolnshire England13
12City of Edinburgh Scotland10
13Wrexham Wales10
14Pembrokeshire Wales9
15Argyll and Bute Scotland7
392 England66 Scotland88 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 48 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
556
Peak month
July
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Oscinella frit
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
556
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chloropidae
Genus
Oscinella
Name with authority
Oscinella frit (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
18

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1465179 · GBIF 1490322