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Dark Green Fritillary

Speyeria aglaja

61,080Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
90Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan3
Feb0
Mar15
Apr4
May134
Jun13,431
Jul38,262
Aug8,876
Sep171
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Cumbria England8,741
2Surrey England3,748
3Highland Scotland3,490
4Dorset England3,404
5North Yorkshire England2,272
6Somerset England1,442
7Gloucestershire England1,258
8Aberdeenshire Scotland1,153
9Devon England1,065
10Cornwall England949
11Oxfordshire England872
12Fife Scotland722
13Argyll and Bute Scotland675
14Perth and Kinross Scotland639
15Isle of Wight England619
48,221 England8,610 Scotland2,012 Wales1,499 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 90 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
61,080
Peak month
July
Counties with records
90
Scientific name
Speyeria aglaja
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
60,096
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Speyeria
Name with authority
Speyeria aglaja (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
41

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q14370264 · GBIF 6221746