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Sarcophaga carnaria

1,511Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
60Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr58
May237
Jun205
Jul435
Aug344
Sep97
Oct11
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England133
2Devon England108
3Norfolk England104
4Worcestershire England91
5Oxfordshire England85
6Suffolk England74
7Cambridgeshire England39
8East Riding of Yorkshire England30
9Carmarthenshire Wales28
10Dorset England21
11Nottinghamshire England21
12Lincolnshire England16
13North Yorkshire England16
14Cheshire East England16
15North Lincolnshire England15
1,256 England17 Scotland79 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 60 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,511
Peak month
July
Counties with records
60
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,376
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Sarcophagidae
Genus
Sarcophaga
Name with authority
Sarcophaga carnaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
22

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q162310 · GBIF 4518735