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Ornate Tailed Digger Wasp

Cerceris rybyensis

1,429Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
47Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr3
May32
Jun363
Jul618
Aug303
Sep42
Oct0
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England76
2Kent England75
3Worcestershire England70
4Cambridgeshire England66
5Surrey England64
6Suffolk England55
7Dorset England50
8Oxfordshire England34
9Thurrock England23
10Sefton England22
11Northamptonshire England20
12Essex England18
13Somerset England12
14Devon England10
15Lincolnshire England9
1,400 England26 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 47 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,429
Peak month
July
Counties with records
47
Scientific name
Cerceris rybyensis
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,257
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Crabronidae
Genus
Cerceris
Name with authority
Cerceris rybyensis (Linnaeus, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q857547 · GBIF 4495253