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Common Wainscot

Mythimna pallens

9,064Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
66Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr3
May662
Jun1,706
Jul1,472
Aug2,823
Sep1,949
Oct107
Nov9
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England2,364
2West Berkshire England1,285
3Worcestershire England250
4Cambridgeshire England177
5Norfolk England166
6Suffolk England117
7Essex England109
8Rutland England74
9Kent England67
10Telford and Wrekin England64
11Highland Scotland55
12North Yorkshire England45
13Cornwall England39
14Sefton England37
15Surrey England34
8,801 England118 Scotland36 Wales83 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 66 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
9,064
Peak month
August
Counties with records
66
Scientific name
Mythimna pallens
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
8,353
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Mythimna
Name with authority
Mythimna pallens Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2552327 · GBIF 5772196