Essex Field Club on Facebook

Visit Our Centre

EFC Centre at Wat Tyler Country ParkOur centre is available for visits on a pre-booked basis on Wednesdays between 10am - 4pm. The Club’s activities and displays are also usually open to the public on the first Saturday of the month 11am - 4pm.

About us


Dragonfly Project

Dragonfly Project on Zooniverse

Purfleet on Thames

Video about the Club Essex Field Club video

registered charity
no 1113963
HLF Logo A-Z Page Index

Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata Copyright: Peter Harvey
Subcoccinella vigintiquattuorpunctata

Species Search

Help record

Help record now ......
Submit Records


Provide moth records
moth species pages

Recent photos

Purfleet Elephant Tooth 2 300 000 years old
Purfleet Acheulian Flint Hand Axe 2 300 000 years old
Purfleet Acheulian Flint Hand Axe 1 300 000 years old
Purfleet Mammoth Tooth 3 300 000 years old
Purfleet Mammoth Tooth 2 300 000 years old
Purfleet Mammoth Tooth 1 300 000 years old
Roger Hewitt aged 2 in 1952 Buckhurst Hill
Copperas Iron Sulphate Crystals made from London Clay wood
Copperas Iron Sulphate made from pyritized London Clay wood
Tripcock Reach Thames 1905
Purfleet Long Reach 1905
Hole Haven Dutch eel fishing boats 1905
Grays Exmouth and Shaftesbury Training Ships 1905
Alabonia geoffrella Purleigh
London to the Nore Title Page 1905

Species Account for Blaesoxipha plumicornis

previous species | next species

Blaesoxipha plumicornis  (Zetterstedt, 1859)
Diptera: other groups: Sarcophagidae

 
Maps produced by MapMate®. Data overlays Copyright © Essex Field Club 2025.
Reproduction for study and non-profit use permitted, all other rights reserved.

Taxonomic group: flies (other) (Diptera: other groups) - County data

Why not become a member

View time series maps for Blaesoxipha plumicornis

Missing records?

member log-on for taxon report




Status: Notable

Records: 133
First Record: 1996
Latest Record: 2024

1992-on hectads: 18
Pre-1992 hectads: 0
Total hectads: 18

Additional Phenology Data

Images

sorry, no pictures available for this species yet - if you have an image please upload it

   
 
Please report any problems with this record:
VC error
GR error
Taxon ID suspect
Structural habitat suspect
Other problems, please explain here:


 

Species text
Blaesoxipha plumicornis is a locally frequent flesh fly in southern England, especially Dorset, Hampshire and Surrey. It is found on heaths and commons. The larvae are parasitoids of grasshoppers, including Chorthippus parallelus and C. brunneus. Other county records are all from the East Thames Corridor except for Epping Forest (D.A. Smith, county database). References

Species text last edited on Sun Nov 3rd 2019 by user 3

Habitats

Broad Habitat Data (based on 87 records with habitat information)

Broad subhabitat Data (based on 1 records with subhabitat information)

Structural Habitat Data (based on 62 records with structural habitat information)

Habitat Detail and Method (based on 133 records with habitat detail and method information)

Recorded management for locations with Blaesoxipha plumicornis

Recorded substrate and hydrology for locations with Blaesoxipha plumicornis

Why not join the Club, register and add a new species page
Interpretation of distribution maps