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Elephant Hawk-moth

Deilephila elpenor

7,042Records since 2000
JunePeak month
98Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb3
Mar1
Apr12
May370
Jun2,755
Jul2,642
Aug638
Sep201
Oct10
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England966
2West Berkshire England802
3Argyll and Bute Scotland339
4Worcestershire England326
5Norfolk England239
6Cambridgeshire England130
7Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland115
8Sefton England112
9Suffolk England110
10Kent England86
11Highland Scotland74
12Bracknell Forest England73
13Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland70
14Gwynedd Wales61
15Telford and Wrekin England58
5,807 England651 Scotland208 Wales346 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 98 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,042
Peak month
June
Counties with records
98
Scientific name
Deilephila elpenor
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,461
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Deilephila
Name with authority
Deilephila elpenor Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161384 · GBIF 1864377