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Burnished Brass

Diachrysia chrysitis

5,765Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May118
Jun1,225
Jul2,240
Aug1,098
Sep727
Oct53
Nov5
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England883
2Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland539
3West Berkshire England514
4Argyll and Bute Scotland470
5Worcestershire England230
6Highland Scotland228
7Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland184
8Cambridgeshire England173
9Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland136
10Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland134
11Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland113
12Norfolk England109
13Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland86
14Ards and North Down Northern Ireland71
15Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland64
3,398 England1,390 Scotland63 Wales884 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,765
Peak month
July
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Diachrysia chrysitis
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,203
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Diachrysia
Name with authority
Diachrysia chrysitis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
34

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q904915 · GBIF 1785888