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Soldier fly

Chloromyia formosa

12,979Records since 2000
JunePeak month
122Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar3
Apr17
May803
Jun6,981
Jul4,459
Aug368
Sep11
Oct2
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England595
2Devon England590
3Surrey England518
4Kent England424
5Cornwall England326
6Worcestershire England314
7Dorset England305
8Cambridgeshire England258
9Oxfordshire England255
10Northamptonshire England247
11Essex England226
12Gloucestershire England205
13Suffolk England188
14Cumbria England171
15North Yorkshire England157
11,151 England628 Scotland983 Wales138 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
12,979
Peak month
June
Counties with records
122
Scientific name
Chloromyia formosa
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
11,856
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Chloromyia
Name with authority
Chloromyia formosa (Scopoli, 1763)
Described
1763
Contributing datasets
37

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q289431 · GBIF 1576923