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Ashy Button

Acleris sparsana

744Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan5
Feb2
Mar1
Apr1
May3
Jun13
Jul17
Aug28
Sep125
Oct338
Nov144
Dec8

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England169
2Worcestershire England49
3West Berkshire England48
4Argyll and Bute Scotland42
5Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland21
6Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland16
7Sefton England11
8Bracknell Forest England8
9Kent England7
10Telford and Wrekin England7
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland6
12Norfolk England5
13Surrey England4
14Cambridgeshire England3
15Suffolk England3
638 England54 Scotland3 Wales45 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
744
Peak month
October
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Acleris sparsana
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
676
Most recorded in
Oxfordshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Tortricidae
Genus
Acleris
Name with authority
Acleris sparsana (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1775
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1307935 · GBIF 1740174