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Cinnabar

Tyria jacobaeae

14,180Records since 2000
JunePeak month
117Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar2
Apr147
May2,678
Jun5,955
Jul3,977
Aug936
Sep32
Oct1
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England1,529
2West Berkshire England777
3Suffolk England398
4Worcestershire England372
5Argyll and Bute Scotland281
6Dorset England276
7Essex England215
8Cumbria England213
9Cambridgeshire England209
10Norfolk England199
11Nottinghamshire England195
12City of Edinburgh Scotland181
13Sefton England179
14Surrey England171
15Fife Scotland168
11,731 England1,055 Scotland679 Wales627 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 117 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
14,180
Peak month
June
Counties with records
117
Scientific name
Tyria jacobaeae
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
10,611
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Tyria
Name with authority
Tyria jacobaeae Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
46

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q769234 · GBIF 5115777