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Yellow May Dun

Heptagenia sulphurea

1,186Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar98
Apr321
May168
Jun36
Jul34
Aug28
Sep223
Oct186
Nov81
Dec9

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Monmouthshire Wales146
2Powys Wales133
3Gwynedd Wales107
4Dumfries and Galloway Scotland107
5Carmarthenshire Wales91
6Highland Scotland76
7Pembrokeshire Wales76
8Worcestershire England56
9Ceredigion Wales42
10Herefordshire, County of England38
11Scottish Borders Scotland33
12South Ayrshire Scotland29
13Perth and Kinross Scotland28
14Denbighshire Wales25
15Conwy Wales22
126 England332 Scotland705 Wales2 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,186
Peak month
April
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Heptagenia sulphurea
Group
Mayflies
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,170
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Ephemeroptera
Family
Heptageniidae
Genus
Heptagenia
Name with authority
Heptagenia sulphurea (Müller, 1776)
Described
1776
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q6860519 · GBIF 4481425