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Pomace fly

Scaptomyza pallida

2,587Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
71Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan24
Feb29
Mar41
Apr34
May44
Jun501
Jul763
Aug486
Sep236
Oct172
Nov90
Dec57

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England334
2Aberdeenshire Scotland236
3Cambridgeshire England143
4Carmarthenshire Wales124
5Aberdeen City Scotland123
6North Yorkshire England118
7Worcestershire England110
8Dorset England77
9Warrington England77
10Devon England66
11City of Edinburgh Scotland62
12Doncaster England58
13Highland Scotland54
14Suffolk England35
15Milton Keynes England35
1,487 England377 Scotland179 Wales6 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,587
Peak month
July
Counties with records
71
Scientific name
Scaptomyza pallida
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,927
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Drosophilidae
Genus
Scaptomyza
Name with authority
Scaptomyza pallida (Zetterstedt, 1847)
Described
1847
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13851730 · GBIF 1556863