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Micropsectra contracta

1,008Records since 2000
FebruaryPeak month
14Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan18
Feb413
Mar59
Apr318
May55
Jun31
Jul17
Aug17
Sep26
Oct13
Nov28
Dec13

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England40
2Carmarthenshire Wales29
3Cambridgeshire England24
4Suffolk England13
5North Lincolnshire England8
6Oxfordshire England6
7Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland5
8Dorset England4
9North Yorkshire England4
10Aberdeenshire Scotland3
11Pembrokeshire Wales2
12Doncaster England2
13Devon England1
14Lincolnshire England1
5 England2 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 14 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,008
Peak month
February
Counties with records
14
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Micropsectra
Name with authority
Micropsectra contracta Reiss, 1965
Described
1965
Contributing datasets
2

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14559360 · GBIF 1449214