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Tipula maxima

1,779Records since 2000
JunePeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb0
Mar6
Apr25
May621
Jun625
Jul263
Aug111
Sep21
Oct15
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England127
2Gwynedd Wales79
3Devon England76
4Norfolk England69
5Highland Scotland55
6North Yorkshire England53
7Cornwall England45
8Powys Wales42
9Argyll and Bute Scotland39
10Cumbria England32
11Herefordshire, County of England29
12Cambridgeshire England23
13Carmarthenshire Wales23
14Somerset England22
15Suffolk England21
1,248 England216 Scotland290 Wales16 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,779
Peak month
June
Counties with records
93
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,655
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tipulidae
Genus
Tipula
Name with authority
Tipula maxima Poda, 1761
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q766595 · GBIF 1507199