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Orange-belted Plumehorn

Volucella inflata

593Records since 2000
JunePeak month
32Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May82
Jun321
Jul155
Aug20
Sep2
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England46
2Norfolk England41
3Devon England37
4Cambridgeshire England25
5Oxfordshire England22
6Surrey England21
7Essex England21
8Gloucestershire England17
9Dorset England15
10Somerset England11
11Northamptonshire England9
12Bristol, City of England9
13Herefordshire, County of England9
14Suffolk England8
15Worcestershire England8
565 England27 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 32 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
593
Peak month
June
Counties with records
32
Scientific name
Volucella inflata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
541
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Volucella
Name with authority
Volucella inflata (Fabricius, 1794)
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2747229 · GBIF 1541819