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Hover fly

Cheilosia pagana

2,928Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
100Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar82
Apr635
May506
Jun289
Jul439
Aug540
Sep196
Oct9
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England231
2Oxfordshire England132
3East Riding of Yorkshire England108
4Norfolk England102
5Milton Keynes England93
6Cheshire East England75
7Dorset England67
8Lincolnshire England55
9Cumbria England54
10Highland Scotland53
11North Yorkshire England44
12Sefton England42
13Warrington England42
14Kent England41
15Northamptonshire England40
2,522 England243 Scotland109 Wales19 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 100 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,928
Peak month
April
Counties with records
100
Scientific name
Cheilosia pagana
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,581
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Cheilosia
Name with authority
Cheilosia pagana (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2746189 · GBIF 1539941