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Microtendipes pedellus

912Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
26Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar18
Apr308
May139
Jun42
Jul146
Aug72
Sep125
Oct40
Nov14
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England79
2Oxfordshire England58
3Essex England41
4Suffolk England32
5Dorset England12
6Milton Keynes England11
7Kent England7
8Devon England7
9Aberdeen City Scotland6
10North Yorkshire England5
11Fife Scotland4
12Carmarthenshire Wales4
13Belfast Northern Ireland4
14Norfolk England3
15Lincolnshire England3
503 England12 Scotland2 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 26 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
912
Peak month
April
Counties with records
26
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
504
Most recorded in
Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Microtendipes
Name with authority
Microtendipes pedellus (De Geer, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
9

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1931663 · GBIF 4297461