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Common Footman

Nyea lurideola

8,262Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
72Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar8
Apr9
May49
Jun1,653
Jul5,220
Aug686
Sep19
Oct2
Nov18
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England1,280
2West Berkshire England1,241
3Worcestershire England503
4Suffolk England152
5Cambridgeshire England151
6Norfolk England147
7Essex England95
8Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland95
9Kent England87
10Ards and North Down Northern Ireland87
11Bracknell Forest England87
12North Yorkshire England80
13Surrey England78
14Telford and Wrekin England72
15Argyll and Bute Scotland70
7,660 England190 Scotland107 Wales284 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 72 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,262
Peak month
July
Counties with records
72
Scientific name
Nyea lurideola
Group
Butterflies and moths
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Nyea
Name with authority
Nyea lurideola (Zincken, 1817)
Described
1817
Contributing datasets
30

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 12135372