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Two-banded wasp hoverfly

Chrysotoxum bicincta

4,512Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
111Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr1
May100
Jun1,557
Jul1,749
Aug887
Sep67
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England146
2Norfolk England141
3Kent England136
4Worcestershire England134
5Dorset England132
6Devon England98
7Bath and North East Somerset England97
8Essex England87
9Cumbria England82
10Isle of Anglesey Wales77
11Cambridgeshire England73
12Somerset England64
13Cornwall England61
14Northamptonshire England59
15Lincolnshire England57
3,887 England210 Scotland362 Wales52 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 111 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
4,512
Peak month
July
Counties with records
111
Scientific name
Chrysotoxum bicincta
Group
True flies
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Chrysotoxum
Name with authority
Chrysotoxum bicincta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q232268 · GBIF 1536009