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Dingy Skipper

Erynnis tages

56,840Records since 2000
MayPeak month
65Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar13
Apr3,209
May36,163
Jun15,733
Jul824
Aug556
Sep19
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England7,385
2Surrey England5,106
3Gloucestershire England2,885
4Kent England2,377
5Somerset England2,210
6Cumbria England1,948
7Oxfordshire England1,507
8Lincolnshire England964
9Isle of Wight England914
10North Yorkshire England546
11Northamptonshire England453
12Worcestershire England413
13Nottinghamshire England376
14West Berkshire England334
15Isle of Anglesey Wales297
54,174 England484 Scotland1,992 Wales129 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 65 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
56,840
Peak month
May
Counties with records
65
Scientific name
Erynnis tages
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
56,129
Conservation designations
Wildlife (NI) Order 1985, Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Erynnis
Name with authority
Erynnis tages (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8270406