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Snipefly

Rhagio scolopacea

6,241Records since 2000
JunePeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar3
Apr12
May2,521
Jun2,891
Jul494
Aug49
Sep2
Oct0
Nov1
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland424
2Devon England270
3Norfolk England254
4Surrey England237
5Argyll and Bute Scotland230
6Cumbria England218
7Worcestershire England200
8North Yorkshire England150
9Gwynedd Wales137
10Cambridgeshire England132
11Powys Wales130
12Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland118
13Dorset England111
14Kent England97
15Cornwall England89
4,212 England1,263 Scotland588 Wales119 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 112 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,241
Peak month
June
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Rhagio scolopacea
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Rhagionidae
Genus
Rhagio
Name with authority
Rhagio scolopacea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
40

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q201378 · GBIF 1581812