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Lunar Marbled Brown

Drymonia ruficornis

1,028Records since 2000
AprilPeak month
37Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar14
Apr683
May199
Jun7
Jul0
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England205
2Worcestershire England91
3Oxfordshire England78
4Argyll and Bute Scotland49
5Bracknell Forest England24
6Cornwall England23
7Norfolk England22
8Surrey England19
9Suffolk England18
10Telford and Wrekin England18
11Perth and Kinross Scotland16
12Devon England13
13North Yorkshire England12
14Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland12
15Dorset England7
906 England74 Scotland8 Wales26 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 37 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,028
Peak month
April
Counties with records
37
Scientific name
Drymonia ruficornis
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
855
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Notodontidae
Genus
Drymonia
Name with authority
Drymonia ruficornis (Hufnagel, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q786879 · GBIF 5118892