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Purple Bar

Cosmorhoe ocellata

1,995Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
60Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr3
May94
Jun274
Jul727
Aug615
Sep88
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland504
2Highland Scotland260
3Argyll and Bute Scotland250
4Worcestershire England182
5West Berkshire England82
6Oxfordshire England79
7Suffolk England52
8Cambridgeshire England38
9Cornwall England37
10Devon England34
11Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland34
12Perth and Kinross Scotland28
13Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland26
14North Yorkshire England15
15Kent England14
747 England1,096 Scotland52 Wales93 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 60 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,995
Peak month
July
Counties with records
60
Scientific name
Cosmorhoe ocellata
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,852
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Cosmorhoe
Name with authority
Cosmorhoe ocellata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
31

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1306112 · GBIF 1970213