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Muscid fly

Helina evecta

1,390Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
76Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb36
Mar237
Apr170
May48
Jun164
Jul230
Aug129
Sep184
Oct92
Nov21
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cambridgeshire England96
2Highland Scotland76
3Norfolk England68
4Devon England50
5North Yorkshire England40
6East Riding of Yorkshire England39
7Essex England37
8Worcestershire England36
9Carmarthenshire Wales32
10Fife Scotland30
11Oxfordshire England28
12Cornwall England28
13Kent England26
14Suffolk England23
15Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland23
866 England190 Scotland68 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 76 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,390
Peak month
March
Counties with records
76
Scientific name
Helina evecta
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,083
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Helina
Name with authority
Helina evecta (Harris, 1780)
Described
1780
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q5705359 · GBIF 5069084