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Ringlet

Aphantopus hyperantus

520,519Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
122Counties with records
Least ConcernIUCN Red List

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar156
Apr29
May124
Jun97,580
Jul380,262
Aug39,537
Sep535
Oct8
Nov2
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England23,109
2Surrey England22,473
3Somerset England19,069
4Cambridgeshire England15,872
5Kent England14,240
6Gloucestershire England13,271
7Suffolk England11,908
8North Yorkshire England11,404
9Oxfordshire England10,779
10Essex England10,179
11Norfolk England10,090
12Cumbria England9,711
13Devon England8,721
14Lincolnshire England6,612
15Worcestershire England6,503
463,834 England29,900 Scotland14,367 Wales7,425 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 122 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
520,519
Peak month
July
Counties with records
122
IUCN Red List
Least Concern
Scientific name
Aphantopus hyperantus
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
512,830
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Aphantopus
Name with authority
Aphantopus hyperantus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q161520 · GBIF 1896841