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Common Swift

Korscheltellus lupulina

2,958Records since 2000
JunePeak month
67Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar3
Apr1
May1,029
Jun1,502
Jul95
Aug68
Sep6
Oct0
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England471
2West Berkshire England370
3Worcestershire England169
4Telford and Wrekin England122
5Cambridgeshire England114
6North Yorkshire England68
7Suffolk England50
8Surrey England42
9Rutland England39
10Kent England31
11Norfolk England29
12Bracknell Forest England24
13Essex England21
14Warrington England19
15Pembrokeshire Wales15
2,839 England45 Scotland65 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 67 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,958
Peak month
June
Counties with records
67
Scientific name
Korscheltellus lupulina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,428
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hepialidae
Genus
Korscheltellus
Name with authority
Korscheltellus lupulina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q27997734 · GBIF 5879654