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Grey-spotted Sedgesitter

Platycheirus albimanus

15,504Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb13
Mar736
Apr3,529
May2,189
Jun1,711
Jul2,309
Aug1,818
Sep1,861
Oct562
Nov129
Dec6

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England609
2Norfolk England552
3Cumbria England534
4Oxfordshire England453
5North Yorkshire England429
6Highland Scotland422
7Northamptonshire England355
8Milton Keynes England229
9Argyll and Bute Scotland225
10Devon England216
11Warrington England206
12Cheshire East England203
13Kent England191
14Leeds England189
15Cambridgeshire England172
11,945 England2,047 Scotland1,043 Wales304 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,504
Peak month
April
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Platycheirus albimanus
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
13,582
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Platycheirus
Name with authority
Platycheirus albimanus (Fabricius, 1781)
Described
1781
Contributing datasets
45

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1765351 · GBIF 4516769