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Striped Slender Robberfly

Leptogaster cylindrica

3,844Records since 2000
JunePeak month
78Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr2
May199
Jun1,891
Jul1,487
Aug119
Sep4
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England216
2Norfolk England200
3Surrey England192
4Cambridgeshire England178
5Essex England173
6Worcestershire England148
7Northamptonshire England109
8Devon England92
9Suffolk England90
10Cornwall England89
11Dorset England78
12Oxfordshire England67
13East Riding of Yorkshire England57
14North Yorkshire England56
15Gloucestershire England47
3,657 England13 Scotland148 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 78 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,844
Peak month
June
Counties with records
78
Scientific name
Leptogaster cylindrica
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,791
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Asilidae
Genus
Leptogaster
Name with authority
Leptogaster cylindrica (De Geer, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q4042781 · GBIF 5091025