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Common Grey

Scoparia ambigualis

3,126Records since 2000
JunePeak month
62Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr7
May277
Jun1,193
Jul874
Aug257
Sep38
Oct7
Nov7
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England559
2Oxfordshire England378
3Worcestershire England352
4Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland156
5Argyll and Bute Scotland126
6Suffolk England122
7Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland122
8Telford and Wrekin England113
9Highland Scotland66
10Norfolk England58
11Cambridgeshire England45
12Bracknell Forest England34
13Rutland England23
14North Yorkshire England19
15Sefton England14
2,544 England400 Scotland19 Wales162 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 62 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,126
Peak month
June
Counties with records
62
Scientific name
Scoparia ambigualis
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,007
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Scoparia
Name with authority
Scoparia ambigualis Treitschke, 1829
Described
1829
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2937644 · GBIF 1882459