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Cosmia trapezina

5,535Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
89Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr7
May147
Jun556
Jul2,907
Aug1,446
Sep73
Oct2
Nov11
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England830
2Oxfordshire England588
3Worcestershire England294
4Argyll and Bute Scotland127
5Kent England106
6Perth and Kinross Scotland103
7Surrey England97
8Highland Scotland93
9Norfolk England86
10Cambridgeshire England84
11Suffolk England79
12Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland76
13Bracknell Forest England71
14Essex England70
15Telford and Wrekin England65
4,730 England479 Scotland45 Wales265 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 89 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,535
Peak month
July
Counties with records
89
Scientific name
Cosmia trapezina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
4,427
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Cosmia
Name with authority
Cosmia trapezina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q608077 · GBIF 1769566