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Truffle Blacklet

Cheilosia ruffipes

618Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
31Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May9
Jun106
Jul265
Aug182
Sep41
Oct8
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England94
2Dorset England58
3Milton Keynes England32
4Cambridgeshire England22
5Surrey England19
6Kent England15
7Norfolk England14
8Somerset England10
9Northamptonshire England9
10Peterborough England9
11Suffolk England7
12Bath and North East Somerset England7
13Devon England4
14Worcestershire England4
15Gloucestershire England4
594 England2 Scotland14 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 31 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
618
Peak month
July
Counties with records
31
Scientific name
Cheilosia ruffipes
Group
True flies
Most recorded in
Oxfordshire, Dorset
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Cheilosia
Name with authority
Cheilosia ruffipes (Preyssler, 1793)
Described
1793
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14515634 · GBIF 1540146