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Spotted Meliscaeva

Meliscaeva auricollis

5,839Records since 2000
JunePeak month
112Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan99
Feb381
Mar627
Apr373
May700
Jun1,636
Jul1,102
Aug412
Sep123
Oct104
Nov116
Dec85

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Sefton England311
2Dorset England250
3Kent England178
4Oxfordshire England158
5Norfolk England139
6Peterborough England120
7Northamptonshire England114
8Devon England110
9Cumbria England109
10Gwynedd Wales107
11Cambridgeshire England104
12Suffolk England103
13North Yorkshire England83
14Surrey England75
15Essex England71
4,939 England339 Scotland435 Wales55 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
5,839
Peak month
June
Counties with records
112
Scientific name
Meliscaeva auricollis
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,729
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Meliscaeva
Name with authority
Meliscaeva auricollis (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2744800 · GBIF 1535529