About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Clouded Border
Species · Butterflies and moths

Clouded Border

Lomaspilis marginata

5,455Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
93Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr19
May514
Jun1,889
Jul2,120
Aug400
Sep33
Oct1
Nov15
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Argyll and Bute Scotland617
2West Berkshire England543
3Oxfordshire England426
4Worcestershire England332
5Highland Scotland192
6Cambridgeshire England188
7Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland156
8Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland139
9Kent England128
10Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland127
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland124
12Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland103
13Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland96
14Norfolk England91
15Surrey England71
3,410 England1,018 Scotland118 Wales891 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 93 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,455
Peak month
July
Counties with records
93
Scientific name
Lomaspilis marginata
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,820
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Lomaspilis
Name with authority
Lomaspilis marginata (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 Q1969405 · GBIF 5149438