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Pale Prominent

Pterostoma palpina

2,976Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
70Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr100
May585
Jun554
Jul834
Aug589
Sep14
Oct0
Nov8
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England510
2West Berkshire England370
3Worcestershire England227
4Cambridgeshire England153
5Argyll and Bute Scotland86
6Suffolk England67
7Kent England50
8Telford and Wrekin England43
9Surrey England37
10Highland Scotland32
11Bracknell Forest England29
12Norfolk England26
13Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland26
14Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland26
15Devon England23
2,645 England137 Scotland52 Wales128 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 70 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,976
Peak month
July
Counties with records
70
Scientific name
Pterostoma palpina
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,678
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Notodontidae
Genus
Pterostoma
Name with authority
Pterostoma palpina (Clerck, 1759)
Described
1759
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2048415 · GBIF 1825064