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Yellow-faced Fly

Tachina grossa

1,856Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
74Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May1
Jun115
Jul923
Aug726
Sep69
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland254
2Devon England121
3North Yorkshire England96
4Cumbria England83
5Cornwall England69
6Worcestershire England66
7Dorset England58
8Norfolk England47
9Gwynedd Wales37
10Suffolk England34
11Isle of Anglesey Wales32
12Sheffield England31
13Gloucestershire England30
14Argyll and Bute Scotland30
15Swansea Wales28
1,113 England422 Scotland256 Wales39 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 74 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,856
Peak month
July
Counties with records
74
Scientific name
Tachina grossa
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,801
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Tachinidae
Genus
Tachina
Name with authority
Tachina grossa (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q3513605 · GBIF 5978626