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Smittia pratorum

2,852Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
27Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan32
Feb203
Mar605
Apr238
May67
Jun101
Jul103
Aug455
Sep194
Oct363
Nov389
Dec102

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England510
2Oxfordshire England356
3Devon England269
4Aberdeenshire Scotland254
5Dorset England143
6Cambridgeshire England123
7Carmarthenshire Wales108
8Surrey England96
9Lincolnshire England88
10Somerset England84
11North Yorkshire England73
12Angus Scotland46
13Highland Scotland38
14Suffolk England35
15Milton Keynes England24
1,124 England197 Scotland54 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 27 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,852
Peak month
March
Counties with records
27
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,404
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Chironomidae
Genus
Smittia
Name with authority
Smittia pratorum (Goetghebuer, 1927)
Described
1927
Contributing datasets
5

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13850219 · GBIF 5055890