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Spring Epistrophe

Epistrophe eligans

6,574Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
107Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb9
Mar326
Apr3,659
May2,091
Jun243
Jul24
Aug14
Sep3
Oct3
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England269
2Oxfordshire England266
3Northamptonshire England224
4Worcestershire England213
5Cambridgeshire England178
6Kent England167
7Sefton England123
8Milton Keynes England103
9Essex England98
10Peterborough England93
11Suffolk England88
12Gwynedd Wales79
13Lincolnshire England75
14East Riding of Yorkshire England73
15Stockport England70
6,024 England181 Scotland283 Wales28 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 107 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
6,574
Peak month
April
Counties with records
107
Scientific name
Epistrophe eligans
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,639
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Epistrophe
Name with authority
Epistrophe eligans (Harris, 1780)
Described
1780
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2746983 · GBIF 5766577