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Gall midge

Lestremia cinerea

2,174Records since 2000
MayPeak month
30Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb7
Mar25
Apr204
May426
Jun242
Jul385
Aug323
Sep318
Oct208
Nov21
Dec10

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England240
2Devon England208
3Carmarthenshire Wales200
4Cambridgeshire England179
5Aberdeenshire Scotland142
6North Lincolnshire England98
7Oxfordshire England85
8Highland Scotland82
9Lincolnshire England48
10Suffolk England37
11Dorset England32
12Doncaster England32
13Aberdeen City Scotland27
14Argyll and Bute Scotland26
15City of Edinburgh Scotland22
847 England267 Scotland114 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,174
Peak month
May
Counties with records
30
Scientific name
Lestremia cinerea
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,221
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Cecidomyiidae
Genus
Lestremia
Name with authority
Lestremia cinerea Macquart, 1826
Described
1826
Contributing datasets
3

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13620668 · GBIF 1601560