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Yellow-legged Black

Pachygaster leachii

1,534Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
57Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar3
Apr1
May13
Jun256
Jul940
Aug189
Sep17
Oct1
Nov0
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Norfolk England121
2Worcestershire England111
3Kent England103
4Surrey England93
5Cambridgeshire England86
6Devon England80
7Lincolnshire England33
8Milton Keynes England33
9Northamptonshire England30
10Oxfordshire England28
11Cornwall England27
12Essex England24
13Dorset England21
14Somerset England21
15East Riding of Yorkshire England18
1,498 England12 Scotland22 Wales2 Northern Ireland

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
1,534
Peak month
July
Counties with records
57
Scientific name
Pachygaster leachii
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,590
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Stratiomyidae
Genus
Pachygaster
Name with authority
Pachygaster leachii Stephens, 1824
Described
1824
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 11345536