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Megaselia pleuralis

1,064Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
23Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar0
Apr76
May92
Jun270
Jul64
Aug479
Sep30
Oct36
Nov14
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1North Yorkshire England610
2Cambridgeshire England28
3Devon England28
4Moray Scotland23
5Highland Scotland22
6Aberdeenshire Scotland18
7Argyll and Bute Scotland14
8Aberdeen City Scotland11
9Essex England8
10North Lincolnshire England7
11Somerset England6
12Perth and Kinross Scotland6
13Suffolk England4
14Oxfordshire England4
15City of Edinburgh Scotland4
479 England57 Scotland2 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 23 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,064
Peak month
August
Counties with records
23
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
519
Most recorded in
North Yorkshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Phoridae
Genus
Megaselia
Name with authority
Megaselia pleuralis (Wood, 1909)
Described
1909
Contributing datasets
3

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14122585 · GBIF 1548494