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Pyronia tithonus

600,897Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
84Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb2
Mar238
Apr29
May82
Jun5,968
Jul331,444
Aug252,606
Sep7,404
Oct24
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England48,555
2Surrey England37,494
3Kent England25,117
4Somerset England23,508
5Cambridgeshire England17,480
6Essex England16,340
7Devon England16,147
8Suffolk England14,204
9Cornwall England11,196
10Gloucestershire England11,156
11Oxfordshire England10,950
12Norfolk England10,944
13Worcestershire England6,782
14Isle of Wight England6,368
15Herefordshire, County of England5,747
582,437 England3 Scotland18,409 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 84 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
600,897
Peak month
July
Counties with records
84
Scientific name
Pyronia tithonus
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
607,406
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Pyronia
Name with authority
Pyronia tithonus (Linnaeus, 1771)
Described
1771
Contributing datasets
32

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7622059