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Golden Dung Fly

Scathophaga stercoraria

14,206Records since 2000
JunePeak month
124Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan98
Feb317
Mar1,096
Apr2,408
May2,569
Jun2,599
Jul1,505
Aug1,125
Sep792
Oct666
Nov445
Dec269

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England488
2Cornwall England471
3Norfolk England391
4Worcestershire England357
5North Yorkshire England347
6Perth and Kinross Scotland308
7Kent England257
8Cheshire East England254
9Oxfordshire England224
10Dorset England222
11Somerset England222
12Northamptonshire England220
13Cambridgeshire England215
14Highland Scotland213
15Cumbria England211
10,271 England1,831 Scotland1,117 Wales130 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
14,206
Peak month
June
Counties with records
124
Scientific name
Scathophaga stercoraria
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
12,088
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Scathophagidae
Genus
Scathophaga
Name with authority
Scathophaga stercoraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
48

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q28120 · GBIF 1556243