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Asian Large Skipper

Ochlodes venata

205,385Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar82
Apr19
May2,568
Jun88,550
Jul103,342
Aug9,590
Sep123
Oct2
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England14,525
2Surrey England11,216
3Somerset England8,546
4Cambridgeshire England6,871
5Gloucestershire England5,351
6Kent England5,262
7Oxfordshire England4,357
8Suffolk England4,243
9Essex England3,855
10Norfolk England3,738
11Cumbria England3,526
12Devon England3,494
13Cornwall England2,988
14Worcestershire England2,296
15Isle of Wight England2,148
200,518 England321 Scotland4,539 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
205,385
Peak month
July
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Ochlodes venata
Group
Butterflies and moths
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Ochlodes
Name with authority
Ochlodes venata (Bremer & Grey, 1853)
Described
1853
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7389824