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Limnophyes minimus

10,558Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
32Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan215
Feb2,319
Mar3,208
Apr954
May723
Jun690
Jul283
Aug561
Sep203
Oct367
Nov472
Dec553

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England4,099
2Somerset England937
3Carmarthenshire Wales398
4Aberdeen City Scotland330
5Cambridgeshire England280
6Doncaster England152
7Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland124
8Oxfordshire England118
9Perth and Kinross Scotland76
10Highland Scotland64
11Argyll and Bute Scotland60
12City of Edinburgh Scotland50
13Essex England43
14North Yorkshire England35
15Surrey England28
4,264 England623 Scotland197 Wales75 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 32 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
10,558
Peak month
March
Counties with records
32
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,800
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Limnophyes
Name with authority
Limnophyes minimus (Meigen, 1818)
Described
1818
Contributing datasets
8

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13851040 · GBIF 1454495