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Muscoid fly

Myospila meditabunda

537Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr24
May72
Jun99
Jul138
Aug100
Sep48
Oct8
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland43
2Devon England38
3Aberdeenshire Scotland36
4Carmarthenshire Wales30
5Worcestershire England24
6Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland23
7North Yorkshire England18
8Cambridgeshire England17
9Oxfordshire England16
10Kent England13
11Somerset England13
12Norfolk England12
13Gwynedd Wales11
14Lincolnshire England9
15Dorset England8
267 England109 Scotland65 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 48 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
537
Peak month
July
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Myospila meditabunda
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
448
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Muscidae
Genus
Myospila
Name with authority
Myospila meditabunda (Fabricius, 1781)
Described
1781
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q6948046 · GBIF 1531031