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Griposia aprilina

1,428Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
43Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May8
Jun2
Jul0
Aug0
Sep113
Oct1,043
Nov168
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England270
2Oxfordshire England154
3Worcestershire England78
4Argyll and Bute Scotland50
5Suffolk England44
6Norfolk England36
7Bracknell Forest England26
8Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland24
9Surrey England11
10Telford and Wrekin England11
11Cambridgeshire England8
12Cornwall England8
13Bath and North East Somerset England7
14East Riding of Yorkshire England6
15Kent England5
1,326 England64 Scotland2 Wales34 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 43 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,428
Peak month
October
Counties with records
43
Scientific name
Griposia aprilina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,322
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Griposia
Name with authority
Griposia aprilina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
14

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q17189288 · GBIF 4533273