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Megaselia nigriceps

1,095Records since 2000
JunePeak month
17Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar0
Apr7
May45
Jun283
Jul192
Aug110
Sep122
Oct188
Nov124
Dec22

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England190
2North Yorkshire England118
3Argyll and Bute Scotland74
4Highland Scotland35
5Aberdeen City Scotland34
6Somerset England16
7Aberdeenshire Scotland16
8Carmarthenshire Wales12
9Cambridgeshire England8
10Moray Scotland7
11Doncaster England5
12Suffolk England2
13Oxfordshire England2
14Worcestershire England2
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland2
443 England115 Scotland6 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 17 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,095
Peak month
June
Counties with records
17
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
526
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Phoridae
Genus
Megaselia
Name with authority
Megaselia nigriceps (Loew, 1866)
Described
1866
Contributing datasets
2

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14122590 · GBIF 1546443