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Mottled Grey

Colostygia multistrigaria

622Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
35Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan4
Feb33
Mar292
Apr184
May11
Jun2
Jul1
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Argyll and Bute Scotland187
2Highland Scotland135
3Worcestershire England84
4Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland14
5Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland14
6Aberdeenshire Scotland12
7Kirklees England10
8Fermanagh and Omagh Northern Ireland10
9Dumfries and Galloway Scotland8
10Moray Scotland8
11Perth and Kinross Scotland6
12Pembrokeshire Wales5
13Bradford England5
14Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland4
15South Lanarkshire Scotland3
163 England381 Scotland17 Wales46 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 35 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
622
Peak month
March
Counties with records
35
Scientific name
Colostygia multistrigaria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
551
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Colostygia
Name with authority
Colostygia multistrigaria (Haworth, 1809)
Described
1809
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2899760 · GBIF 1988602