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Common Oak Purple

Dyseriocrania subpurpurella

800Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
46Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar25
Apr302
May126
Jun26
Jul18
Aug16
Sep7
Oct4
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England248
2West Berkshire England56
3Telford and Wrekin England37
4Oxfordshire England29
5Cheshire East England18
6Norfolk England17
7Warrington England16
8Suffolk England13
9Kent England11
10Surrey England11
11Devon England11
12Argyll and Bute Scotland6
13Highland Scotland4
14Essex England4
15Cumbria England4
746 England13 Scotland3 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 46 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
800
Peak month
April
Counties with records
46
Scientific name
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
682
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Eriocraniidae
Genus
Dyseriocrania
Name with authority
Dyseriocrania subpurpurella (Haworth, 1828)
Described
1828
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1315413 · GBIF 1731860