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Large Meadow Fly

Chrysotoxum cautum

664Records since 2000
MayPeak month
36Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr22
May332
Jun258
Jul40
Aug3
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England36
2Oxfordshire England34
3Northamptonshire England34
4Suffolk England31
5Bath and North East Somerset England28
6Kent England26
7Somerset England20
8Swansea Wales17
9Surrey England16
10Norfolk England13
11Essex England11
12Pembrokeshire Wales11
13Cornwall England10
14Rutland England10
15Milton Keynes England10
602 England1 Scotland61 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 36 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
664
Peak month
May
Counties with records
36
Scientific name
Chrysotoxum cautum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
616
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Chrysotoxum
Name with authority
Chrysotoxum cautum (Harris, 1778)
Described
1778
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q839641 · GBIF 1535990