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Cloaked Minor

Mesoligia furuncula

2,791Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
52Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May4
Jun91
Jul1,432
Aug1,156
Sep11
Oct0
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England429
2West Berkshire England292
3Sefton England79
4Worcestershire England66
5Essex England44
6Suffolk England41
7Norfolk England37
8Surrey England33
9Bracknell Forest England33
10Kent England28
11Cambridgeshire England21
12Telford and Wrekin England15
13Rutland England10
14Devon England9
15Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland9
2,726 England5 Scotland14 Wales30 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 52 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,791
Peak month
July
Counties with records
52
Scientific name
Mesoligia furuncula
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,393
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Mesoligia
Name with authority
Mesoligia furuncula (Denis & Schiffermüller), 1775
Described
1775
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1945928 · GBIF 1760104