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Megaselia brevicostalis

761Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
20Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr0
May8
Jun121
Jul276
Aug315
Sep28
Oct9
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England107
2Devon England60
3Carmarthenshire Wales37
4Oxfordshire England21
5Dorset England19
6Doncaster England19
7Milton Keynes England19
8Somerset England17
9Aberdeenshire Scotland17
10Lincolnshire England15
11Suffolk England11
12North Yorkshire England7
13North Lincolnshire England7
14Essex England6
15City of Edinburgh Scotland6
678 England43 Scotland37 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 20 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
761
Peak month
August
Counties with records
20
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
761
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire, Devon
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Phoridae
Genus
Megaselia
Name with authority
Megaselia brevicostalis (Wood, 1910)
Described
1910
Contributing datasets
3

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14122663 · GBIF 1547644