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Grey-backed Snout-hoverfly

Rhingia rostrata

1,334Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr121
May263
Jun130
Jul82
Aug314
Sep278
Oct64
Nov9
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England71
2Kent England64
3Northamptonshire England43
4Oxfordshire England35
5Essex England33
6Rutland England26
7Gloucestershire England20
8Cheshire East England18
9Milton Keynes England18
10Cumbria England17
11Lincolnshire England16
12Stockport England16
13Wolverhampton England16
14Ceredigion Wales15
15Surrey England14
1,245 England4 Scotland83 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,334
Peak month
August
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Rhingia rostrata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,197
Most recorded in
Worcestershire, Kent
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Rhingia
Name with authority
Rhingia rostrata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8170685