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Tooth-thighed Hoverfly

Tropidia scita

1,693Records since 2000
JunePeak month
77Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr5
May624
Jun738
Jul276
Aug22
Sep6
Oct1
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England455
2Cambridgeshire England167
3Dorset England118
4Suffolk England71
5Oxfordshire England59
6East Riding of Yorkshire England46
7Somerset England36
8Sefton England34
9Kent England28
10Lincolnshire England19
11Cumbria England17
12North Lincolnshire England16
13Essex England14
14Devon England13
15Gwynedd Wales12
1,542 England28 Scotland76 Wales13 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 77 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,693
Peak month
June
Counties with records
77
Scientific name
Tropidia scita
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,466
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Tropidia
Name with authority
Tropidia scita (Harris, 1780)
Described
1780
Contributing datasets
25

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2748214 · GBIF 1542175