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Meadow Brown

Maniola jurtina

1,291,987Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
125Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb2
Mar483
Apr94
May2,379
Jun245,112
Jul619,094
Aug351,489
Sep68,718
Oct499
Nov5
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England97,421
2Surrey England83,478
3Somerset England53,171
4Kent England40,327
5Cambridgeshire England30,610
6Essex England30,555
7Gloucestershire England26,588
8Devon England26,063
9Oxfordshire England24,466
10Suffolk England24,071
11Cumbria England21,519
12Cornwall England20,276
13Norfolk England18,730
14Isle of Wight England16,138
15North Yorkshire England12,016
1,204,291 England32,134 Scotland38,910 Wales9,923 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 125 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,291,987
Peak month
July
Counties with records
125
Scientific name
Maniola jurtina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,295,574
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Maniola
Name with authority
Maniola jurtina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
58

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q754668 · GBIF 5135513