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Frosted Green

Polyploca ridens

728Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
22Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar44
Apr555
May79
Jun3
Jul1
Aug0
Sep1
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England237
2Oxfordshire England87
3Bracknell Forest England42
4Worcestershire England32
5Norfolk England29
6Suffolk England25
7Surrey England24
8Devon England9
9Kent England7
10Telford and Wrekin England7
11Pembrokeshire Wales6
12Essex England5
13Bath and North East Somerset England4
14Cambridgeshire England3
15Cornwall England3
713 England12 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 22 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
728
Peak month
April
Counties with records
22
Scientific name
Polyploca ridens
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
625
Most recorded in
West Berkshire, Oxfordshire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Drepanidae
Genus
Polyploca
Name with authority
Polyploca ridens (Fabricius, 1787)
Described
1787
Contributing datasets
11

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1303199 · GBIF 1951713