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Beautiful Plume

Amblyptilia acanthadactyla

2,457Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan19
Feb58
Mar162
Apr131
May36
Jun314
Jul370
Aug706
Sep304
Oct150
Nov70
Dec28

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England567
2West Berkshire England229
3Worcestershire England78
4Sefton England60
5Essex England32
6Telford and Wrekin England31
7Highland Scotland21
8Bracknell Forest England19
9Argyll and Bute Scotland17
10Cambridgeshire England13
11Sandwell England13
12Devon England12
13Cheshire East England12
14Kingston upon Hull, City of England9
15Suffolk England8
2,366 England61 Scotland10 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,457
Peak month
August
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,956
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Pterophoridae
Genus
Amblyptilia
Name with authority
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla (Hübner, 1813)
Described
1813
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2974668 · GBIF 1859285