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Light Emerald

Campaea margaritaria

7,541Records since 2000
JunePeak month
92Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb5
Mar2
Apr5
May563
Jun2,152
Jul1,554
Aug877
Sep1,776
Oct127
Nov15
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England998
2Oxfordshire England784
3Worcestershire England359
4Argyll and Bute Scotland314
5Highland Scotland265
6Bracknell Forest England148
7Norfolk England125
8Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland123
9Kent England113
10Suffolk England112
11Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland101
12Surrey England96
13Sefton England80
14Telford and Wrekin England77
15Cambridgeshire England66
6,134 England849 Scotland110 Wales425 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 92 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
7,541
Peak month
June
Counties with records
92
Scientific name
Campaea margaritaria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
6,412
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Campaea
Name with authority
Campaea margaritaria (Linnaeus, 1761)
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
33

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1758433 · GBIF 1978776