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Oak Beauty

Biston strataria

1,661Records since 2000
MarchPeak month
49Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan9
Feb173
Mar1,116
Apr197
May19
Jun6
Jul1
Aug0
Sep0
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England219
2West Berkshire England210
3Argyll and Bute Scotland173
4Worcestershire England105
5Bracknell Forest England50
6Surrey England26
7Telford and Wrekin England22
8Norfolk England21
9Suffolk England15
10Cornwall England15
11Rutland England14
12Stirling Scotland13
13Sefton England11
14Bath and North East Somerset England11
15Devon England9
1,409 England202 Scotland20 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,661
Peak month
March
Counties with records
49
Scientific name
Biston strataria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,420
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Biston
Name with authority
Biston strataria (Hufnagel, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
19

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q33316 · GBIF 1975903