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Yellow-bowed Smoothwing

Scaeva selenitica

591Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar19
Apr12
May73
Jun154
Jul213
Aug86
Sep13
Oct1
Nov4
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England28
2Worcestershire England22
3Cumbria England20
4Highland Scotland17
5Kent England15
6Cambridgeshire England13
7Argyll and Bute Scotland13
8Lincolnshire England11
9North Yorkshire England11
10Scottish Borders Scotland11
11Oxfordshire England10
12Surrey England10
13Sefton England10
14Powys Wales10
15Milton Keynes England10
444 England101 Scotland40 Wales2 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
591
Peak month
July
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Scaeva selenitica
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
504
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Syrphidae
Genus
Scaeva
Name with authority
Scaeva selenitica (Meigen, 1822)
Described
1822
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1760858 · GBIF 1537717