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Migrant Hover Fly

Eupeodes corollae

9,218Records since 2000
JunePeak month
121Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb9
Mar50
Apr369
May1,293
Jun2,853
Jul2,818
Aug1,345
Sep224
Oct55
Nov21
Dec7

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England258
2Cumbria England238
3Dorset England221
4Cambridgeshire England211
5Suffolk England211
6Kent England202
7Angus Scotland196
8Devon England194
9Oxfordshire England167
10Worcestershire England155
11Aberdeenshire Scotland141
12North Yorkshire England139
13East Riding of Yorkshire England135
14Lincolnshire England132
15Sefton England132
7,067 England1,147 Scotland714 Wales94 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 121 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,218
Peak month
June
Counties with records
121
Scientific name
Eupeodes corollae
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,722
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Eupeodes
Name with authority
Eupeodes corollae (Fabricius, 1794)
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1758301 · GBIF 1540742