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Polygonia c-album

203,691Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
116Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan2
Feb21
Mar2,898
Apr26,832
May7,962
Jun16,606
Jul80,125
Aug32,059
Sep33,799
Oct1,450
Nov11
Dec2

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England9,878
2Dorset England9,120
3Suffolk England7,405
4Somerset England6,972
5Kent England6,590
6Essex England5,569
7Cambridgeshire England5,230
8Norfolk England4,794
9Oxfordshire England3,630
10Gloucestershire England3,195
11Worcestershire England3,098
12Isle of Wight England2,827
13Devon England2,723
14Cumbria England2,223
15Bristol, City of England1,950
198,791 England1,179 Scotland3,653 Wales31 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 116 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
203,691
Peak month
July
Counties with records
116
Scientific name
Polygonia c-album
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
199,284
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Polygonia
Name with authority
Polygonia c-album (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
44

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q754675 · GBIF 1898544