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Wood gnat

Sylvicola cinctus

1,709Records since 2000
JunePeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan74
Feb160
Mar130
Apr141
May185
Jun250
Jul230
Aug102
Sep103
Oct128
Nov66
Dec65

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Argyll and Bute Scotland205
2Warrington England141
3Highland Scotland129
4Moray Scotland79
5Devon England41
6Cambridgeshire England31
7Carmarthenshire Wales29
8Powys Wales27
9Aberdeenshire Scotland27
10Surrey England25
11Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland24
12Monmouthshire Wales23
13Perth and Kinross Scotland22
14Norfolk England19
15North Yorkshire England19
600 England477 Scotland98 Wales47 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,709
Peak month
June
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Sylvicola cinctus
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,219
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Anisopodidae
Genus
Sylvicola
Name with authority
Sylvicola cinctus (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 Q14231664 · GBIF 1566637