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Red Legged Spider Wasp

Episyron rufipes

559Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
30Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May33
Jun117
Jul225
Aug117
Sep12
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Swansea Wales53
2Gwynedd Wales45
3Isle of Anglesey Wales41
4Pembrokeshire Wales38
5Norfolk England37
6Devon England34
7Sefton England29
8Carmarthenshire Wales27
9Cambridgeshire England24
10Suffolk England23
11Ceredigion Wales20
12Worcestershire England16
13Dorset England14
14Surrey England12
15Cornwall England5
249 England249 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 30 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
559
Peak month
July
Counties with records
30
Scientific name
Episyron rufipes
Group
Bees, wasps and ants
NBN Atlas records since 2000
490
Most recorded in
Swansea
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Hymenoptera
Family
Pompilidae
Genus
Episyron
Name with authority
Episyron rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2168123 · GBIF 4505244