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Hook-barred Spearhorn

Chrysotoxum festivum

1,866Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May89
Jun537
Jul652
Aug466
Sep91
Oct3
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England137
2Norfolk England95
3Oxfordshire England76
4Kent England61
5Dorset England60
6Cambridgeshire England57
7Sheffield England40
8Lincolnshire England37
9Suffolk England34
10Surrey England29
11Essex England29
12East Riding of Yorkshire England27
13Wirral England26
14Nottinghamshire England23
15Stockport England23
1,774 England20 Scotland72 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,866
Peak month
July
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Chrysotoxum festivum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,615
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Chrysotoxum
Name with authority
Chrysotoxum festivum (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2744823 · GBIF 4516839