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Golden Pigmy

Stigmella aurella

2,586Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
81Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan117
Feb162
Mar224
Apr246
May99
Jun41
Jul75
Aug135
Sep162
Oct330
Nov233
Dec165

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England519
2Sefton England124
3Essex England90
4Kent England76
5West Berkshire England62
6Halton England61
7Telford and Wrekin England61
8Cheshire East England47
9Oxfordshire England44
10Argyll and Bute Scotland44
11Liverpool England41
12Gloucestershire England26
13Rutland England25
14Kingston upon Hull, City of England24
15Cambridgeshire England23
2,339 England81 Scotland37 Wales76 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 81 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,586
Peak month
October
Counties with records
81
Scientific name
Stigmella aurella
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,677
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Stigmella
Name with authority
Stigmella aurella (Fabricius, 1775) Walsingham, 1908
Described
1908
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q7616550 · GBIF 5769709