Record Highlights
Atypophthalmus inustus (Limoniidae)
Recorder: Phil Brighton
Date: 10 July 2026
Site: Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve
County: Cheshire (VC58)
A Nationally Rare cranefly. It was first discovered in Britain by F.W. Edwards at nearby Cotterill Clough in 1939 and regarded as extremely rare.
Paradelphomyia dalei (Limoniidae)
Recorder: Phil Brighton
Date: 10 July 2026
Site: Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve
County: Cheshire (VC58)
Another Nationally Rare cranefly. Originally described as new to science by Edwards in 1939, it remained unrecorded in Lancashire and Cheshire until 2013.
Small Yellow-legged Robberfly Dioctria linearis (Asilidae)
Recorder: Phil Brighton
Date: 10 July 2026
Site: Dibbinsdale Nature Reserve
County: Cheshire (VC58)
Regionally scarce in the North West, where it is at the edge of its range.