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Old Lady

Mormo maura

1,493Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
71Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb2
Mar4
Apr12
May13
Jun61
Jul318
Aug582
Sep422
Oct2
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England236
2West Berkshire England93
3Worcestershire England57
4Sefton England43
5Telford and Wrekin England19
6East Riding of Yorkshire England15
7Cambridgeshire England13
8Bracknell Forest England13
9Surrey England12
10Nottingham England12
11Rutland England11
12Cheshire East England9
13Norfolk England8
14Suffolk England8
15Devon England8
1,433 England24 Scotland23 Wales11 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 71 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,493
Peak month
August
Counties with records
71
Scientific name
Mormo maura
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,065
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Mormo
Name with authority
Mormo maura (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
21

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q607729 · GBIF 1761735