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Sylvicola punctatus

2,153Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
79Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb0
Mar12
Apr183
May255
Jun126
Jul486
Aug493
Sep274
Oct190
Nov47
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales243
2East Ayrshire Scotland193
3Devon England165
4North Yorkshire England144
5Aberdeenshire Scotland133
6Norfolk England63
7Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland60
8Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland57
9Suffolk England56
10Somerset England52
11Dorset England35
12Orkney Islands Scotland29
13Lincolnshire England28
14Worcestershire England26
15Cumbria England24
865 England360 Scotland247 Wales53 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 79 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,153
Peak month
August
Counties with records
79
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,476
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Anisopodidae
Genus
Sylvicola
Name with authority
Sylvicola punctatus (Fabricius, 1787)
Described
1787
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14231663 · GBIF 1566646