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Bright-line Brown-eye

Lacanobia oleracea

7,916Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr76
May806
Jun2,652
Jul3,121
Aug637
Sep189
Oct38
Nov4
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England1,201
2Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland772
3West Berkshire England636
4Argyll and Bute Scotland537
5Worcestershire England309
6Cambridgeshire England195
7Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland177
8Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland170
9Highland Scotland163
10Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland141
11Suffolk England137
12Sefton England133
13Norfolk England120
14Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland117
15Ards and North Down Northern Ireland79
5,293 England1,547 Scotland162 Wales881 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
7,916
Peak month
July
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Lacanobia oleracea
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,877
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Lacanobia
Name with authority
Lacanobia oleracea Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q769896 · GBIF 1759083