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Snipe fly

Rhagio tringaria

3,679Records since 2000
JunePeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May323
Jun1,449
Jul1,231
Aug511
Sep32
Oct1
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Devon England257
2Powys Wales200
3Surrey England148
4Norfolk England138
5Worcestershire England137
6Kent England117
7Cumbria England108
8North Yorkshire England81
9Dorset England77
10Somerset England73
11Cornwall England72
12Gloucestershire England72
13Highland Scotland56
14Carmarthenshire Wales56
15Isle of Anglesey Wales52
2,918 England197 Scotland533 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,679
Peak month
June
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Rhagio tringaria
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Rhagionidae
Genus
Rhagio
Name with authority
Rhagio tringaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14688464 · GBIF 11255792