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Common Emerald

Hemithea aestivaria

1,994Records since 2000
JunePeak month
56Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr5
May17
Jun929
Jul796
Aug51
Sep9
Oct0
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England309
2Oxfordshire England254
3Worcestershire England122
4Cambridgeshire England73
5Norfolk England43
6Kent England42
7Surrey England41
8Sefton England36
9Essex England34
10Telford and Wrekin England31
11Cornwall England30
12Bracknell Forest England25
13Devon England24
14Armagh City, Banbridge and Craig Northern Ireland20
15Suffolk England16
1,843 England41 Wales89 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 56 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,994
Peak month
June
Counties with records
56
Scientific name
Hemithea aestivaria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,684
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Hemithea
Name with authority
Hemithea aestivaria (Hübner, 1799)
Described
1799
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1497424 · GBIF 1991371