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Purple Hairstreak

Quercusia quercus

18,902Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
74Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb4
Mar13
Apr11
May19
Jun1,038
Jul12,083
Aug5,266
Sep223
Oct3
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Surrey England1,522
2Suffolk England771
3Dorset England770
4Isle of Wight England665
5Essex England596
6Norfolk England446
7Kent England413
8Somerset England312
9Worcestershire England278
10Gloucestershire England191
11Cambridgeshire England185
12Devon England182
13Lincolnshire England123
14Herefordshire, County of England111
15Bath and North East Somerset England102
18,360 England162 Scotland327 Wales35 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 74 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
18,902
Peak month
July
Counties with records
74
Scientific name
Quercusia quercus
Group
Butterflies and moths
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Lycaenidae
Genus
Quercusia
Name with authority
Quercusia quercus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
24

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q13846406 · GBIF 1926324