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Molophilus obscurus

1,515Records since 2000
JunePeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb0
Mar0
Apr45
May305
Jun407
Jul296
Aug137
Sep109
Oct100
Nov18
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England195
2Cambridgeshire England137
3Worcestershire England122
4Devon England93
5Dorset England87
6Suffolk England65
7Somerset England52
8Kent England37
9Gwynedd Wales30
10Herefordshire, County of England30
11North Yorkshire England29
12Warrington England24
13Highland Scotland22
14Cheshire East England19
15Lincolnshire England14
1,288 England45 Scotland108 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,515
Peak month
June
Counties with records
58
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,455
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Limoniidae
Genus
Molophilus
Name with authority
Molophilus obscurus (Meigen, 1818)
Described
1818
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4489894 · GBIF 1519780