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Hornhand Sedgesitter

Pyrophaena granditarsa

2,435Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr0
May75
Jun425
Jul572
Aug857
Sep389
Oct3
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England265
2North Yorkshire England139
3Isle of Anglesey Wales136
4Worcestershire England112
5South Lanarkshire Scotland97
6Norfolk England87
7Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland83
8East Ayrshire Scotland81
9Gwynedd Wales51
10Ceredigion Wales49
11Highland Scotland47
12Carmarthenshire Wales45
13Cheshire East England36
14Cambridgeshire England34
15Swansea Wales33
1,294 England478 Scotland442 Wales197 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,435
Peak month
August
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Pyrophaena granditarsa
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Pyrophaena
Name with authority
Pyrophaena granditarsa (Forster, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q10809779 · GBIF 5886305