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Essex Skipper

Thymelicus lineola

31,187Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar5
Apr1
May13
Jun2,559
Jul23,813
Aug4,622
Sep31
Oct1
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England2,330
2Cambridgeshire England2,313
3Essex England1,449
4Suffolk England1,170
5Oxfordshire England1,046
6Norfolk England994
7Dorset England895
8Kent England792
9Lincolnshire England623
10Gloucestershire England585
11Nottinghamshire England475
12Somerset England359
13Southend-on-Sea England345
14Brighton and Hove England324
15Northamptonshire England245
31,083 England1 Scotland90 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
31,187
Peak month
July
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Thymelicus lineola
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
31,872
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Hesperiidae
Genus
Thymelicus
Name with authority
Thymelicus lineola (Ochsenheimer, 1808)
Described
1808
Contributing datasets
17

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 8133678