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Golden-tailed Leafwalker

Xylota sylvarum

2,149Records since 2000
JunePeak month
86Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr7
May141
Jun855
Jul624
Aug310
Sep89
Oct4
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England139
2Worcestershire England118
3Sefton England83
4Gwynedd Wales63
5Cumbria England55
6North Yorkshire England44
7Dorset England41
8East Lothian Scotland40
9Oxfordshire England37
10Cheshire East England34
11Kent England33
12Devon England31
13Essex England29
14Cambridgeshire England28
15Suffolk England28
1,771 England167 Scotland163 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 86 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,149
Peak month
June
Counties with records
86
Scientific name
Xylota sylvarum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,904
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Xylota
Name with authority
Xylota sylvarum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
29

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2747855 · GBIF 1541654