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Yellow-faced Blowfly

Cynomya mortuorum

789Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar3
Apr66
May102
Jun127
Jul168
Aug151
Sep126
Oct28
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland143
2Orkney Islands Scotland67
3Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland51
4Isle of Anglesey Wales40
5East Riding of Yorkshire England29
6East Lothian Scotland29
7Aberdeenshire Scotland24
8Cumbria England21
9Fife Scotland18
10Lincolnshire England17
11Cambridgeshire England15
12Sefton England15
13Norfolk England14
14City of Edinburgh Scotland13
15Angus Scotland12
306 England420 Scotland62 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 57 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
789
Peak month
July
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Cynomya mortuorum
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
717
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Calliphoridae
Genus
Cynomya
Name with authority
Cynomya mortuorum (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2445632 · GBIF 1502142