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Metriocnemus fuscipes

1,120Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan39
Feb120
Mar265
Apr166
May133
Jun88
Jul52
Aug34
Sep59
Oct78
Nov55
Dec31

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales161
2Aberdeenshire Scotland130
3Devon England108
4North Yorkshire England90
5Lincolnshire England58
6Highland Scotland39
7Dorset England30
8East Ayrshire Scotland28
9Cambridgeshire England23
10Perth and Kinross Scotland22
11Somerset England20
12City of Edinburgh Scotland16
13Sefton England16
14Argyll and Bute Scotland16
15Moray Scotland15
321 England176 Scotland80 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,120
Peak month
March
Counties with records
27
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
601
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Metriocnemus
Name with authority
Metriocnemus fuscipes (Meigen, 1818)
Described
1818
Contributing datasets
6

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13850769 · GBIF 1450245