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Yellow-legged Water-snipefly

Atherix ibis

540Records since 2000
MayPeak month
34Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar44
Apr90
May158
Jun55
Jul21
Aug18
Sep84
Oct48
Nov11
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Carmarthenshire Wales83
2Worcestershire England54
3Pembrokeshire Wales53
4Powys Wales51
5Cumbria England39
6Monmouthshire Wales35
7Ceredigion Wales29
8Herefordshire, County of England24
9North Yorkshire England21
10Wrexham Wales20
11Devon England9
12Swansea Wales7
13Dumfries and Galloway Scotland6
14Scottish Borders Scotland6
15Surrey England5
199 England37 Scotland292 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 34 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
540
Peak month
May
Counties with records
34
Scientific name
Atherix ibis
Group
True flies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
519
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), Rare and scarce species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Diptera
Family
Athericidae
Genus
Atherix
Name with authority
Atherix ibis (Fabricius, 1798)
Described
1798
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1655865 · GBIF 1501514