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Small Spotty-eyed Drone Fly

Eristalinus sepulchralis

2,218Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
77Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar2
Apr70
May373
Jun480
Jul600
Aug539
Sep89
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England269
2Dorset England190
3Cambridgeshire England106
4Oxfordshire England86
5Kent England80
6Somerset England71
7East Riding of Yorkshire England68
8Worcestershire England68
9Suffolk England57
10Cumbria England42
11Essex England34
12Lincolnshire England29
13Nottinghamshire England28
14Sefton England28
15Northamptonshire England23
2,010 England72 Scotland94 Wales36 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 77 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,218
Peak month
July
Counties with records
77
Scientific name
Eristalinus sepulchralis
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,966
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Eristalinus
Name with authority
Eristalinus sepulchralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2744936 · GBIF 1542852