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Orange-marked cranefly

Ptychoptera contaminata

1,414Records since 2000
MayPeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar6
Apr41
May411
Jun296
Jul272
Aug262
Sep55
Oct7
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England116
2Cambridgeshire England102
3Northamptonshire England88
4Somerset England66
5Worcestershire England65
6Kent England37
7Oxfordshire England29
8East Riding of Yorkshire England28
9Devon England27
10Suffolk England23
11Surrey England21
12Cheshire East England21
13Lincolnshire England17
14North Yorkshire England16
15Gloucestershire England12
1,270 England24 Scotland61 Wales7 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,414
Peak month
May
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Ptychoptera contaminata
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,311
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Ptychopteridae
Genus
Ptychoptera
Name with authority
Ptychoptera contaminata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1558680 · GBIF 5089477