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Sandfly

Rhyacophila dorsalis

21,424Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan68
Feb83
Mar1,248
Apr3,424
May2,755
Jun679
Jul1,117
Aug935
Sep2,850
Oct2,508
Nov886
Dec115

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Powys Wales1,619
2Cumbria England1,486
3North Yorkshire England960
4Gwynedd Wales930
5Devon England814
6Ceredigion Wales583
7Cornwall England500
8Worcestershire England495
9Denbighshire Wales381
10Carmarthenshire Wales378
11Aberdeenshire Scotland374
12Conwy Wales364
13Pembrokeshire Wales352
14Highland Scotland343
15Dumfries and Galloway Scotland342
12,620 England2,402 Scotland6,312 Wales15 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
21,424
Peak month
April
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Rhyacophila dorsalis
Group
Caddisflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
21,397
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Trichoptera
Family
Rhyacophilidae
Genus
Rhyacophila
Name with authority
Rhyacophila dorsalis (Curtis, 1834)
Described
1834
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q7572549 · GBIF 1434182