About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Duke of Burgundy Fritillary
Species · Butterflies and moths

Duke of Burgundy Fritillary

Hamearis lucina

3,575Records since 2000
MayPeak month
12Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr337
May2,784
Jun434
Jul5
Aug7
Sep1
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Gloucestershire England387
2Kent England271
3Somerset England262
4North Yorkshire England245
5Dorset England140
6Cumbria England43
7Oxfordshire England17
8Surrey England16
9Lincolnshire England8
10West Berkshire England2
11Cornwall England1
12Isle of Wight England1
3,574 England

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 12 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
3,575
Peak month
May
Counties with records
12
Scientific name
Hamearis lucina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
3,436
Conservation designations
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, Biodiversity List – England, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Riodinidae
Genus
Hamearis
Name with authority
Hamearis lucina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
10

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1114576 · GBIF 1934693