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Orange Footman

Wittia sororcula

1,557Records since 2000
MayPeak month
40Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr18
May772
Jun576
Jul81
Aug29
Sep11
Oct0
Nov7
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England365
2Oxfordshire England263
3Bracknell Forest England69
4Norfolk England51
5Worcestershire England36
6Kent England27
7Surrey England27
8Cornwall England24
9Suffolk England18
10Essex England17
11Cambridgeshire England15
12Bath and North East Somerset England12
13Devon England9
14Dorset England8
15Herefordshire, County of England8
1,539 England1 Scotland9 Wales1 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 40 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,557
Peak month
May
Counties with records
40
Scientific name
Wittia sororcula
Group
Butterflies and moths
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Wittia
Name with authority
Wittia sororcula (Hufnagel, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · GBIF 7596232