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Hover Fly

Syritta pipiens

15,338Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
124Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb2
Mar10
Apr163
May1,551
Jun2,734
Jul4,138
Aug4,633
Sep1,497
Oct165
Nov9
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England515
2Peterborough England504
3Worcestershire England502
4Cumbria England481
5Oxfordshire England323
6Northamptonshire England323
7Kent England279
8Devon England267
9Dorset England252
10North Yorkshire England247
11Cambridgeshire England238
12Isle of Anglesey Wales225
13Cheshire East England217
14Somerset England194
15Gwynedd Wales187
12,779 England838 Scotland1,522 Wales138 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 124 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
15,338
Peak month
August
Counties with records
124
Scientific name
Syritta pipiens
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
13,677
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Syritta
Name with authority
Syritta pipiens (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
38

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q910222 · GBIF 1544431