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Rustic Shoulder-knot

Apamea sordens

2,279Records since 2000
JunePeak month
55Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr19
May987
Jun1,121
Jul54
Aug11
Sep3
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England628
2West Berkshire England204
3Cambridgeshire England74
4Norfolk England58
5Argyll and Bute Scotland57
6Worcestershire England52
7Highland Scotland27
8Suffolk England23
9Telford and Wrekin England22
10Midlothian Scotland17
11West Dunbartonshire Scotland16
12Rutland England15
13East Lothian Scotland13
14East Riding of Yorkshire England9
15Sefton England9
2,097 England153 Scotland14 Wales12 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 55 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,279
Peak month
June
Counties with records
55
Scientific name
Apamea sordens
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,025
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Apamea
Name with authority
Apamea sordens (Hufnagel, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2989340 · GBIF 1796117