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Lime Hawk-moth

Mimas tiliae

1,521Records since 2000
MayPeak month
51Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb1
Mar2
Apr127
May526
Jun496
Jul122
Aug112
Sep15
Oct0
Nov0
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Kent England147
2Oxfordshire England104
3West Berkshire England86
4Worcestershire England78
5Cambridgeshire England43
6Bracknell Forest England31
7Telford and Wrekin England29
8Sefton England25
9Norfolk England23
10Suffolk England19
11Surrey England16
12Essex England13
13Bath and North East Somerset England7
14Nottinghamshire England6
15North Yorkshire England5
1,493 England2 Scotland17 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 51 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,521
Peak month
May
Counties with records
51
Scientific name
Mimas tiliae
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,201
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Mimas
Name with authority
Mimas tiliae Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
16

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q428187 · GBIF 5123922