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Scorched Wing

Plagodis dolabraria

1,807Records since 2000
JunePeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr6
May555
Jun837
Jul148
Aug37
Sep9
Oct0
Nov10
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1West Berkshire England288
2Oxfordshire England244
3Worcestershire England160
4Argyll and Bute Scotland107
5Norfolk England106
6Kent England45
7Cambridgeshire England44
8Bracknell Forest England32
9Surrey England24
10Cornwall England19
11Devon England18
12Telford and Wrekin England17
13Suffolk England16
14Highland Scotland16
15Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland14
1,597 England132 Scotland28 Wales40 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 48 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,807
Peak month
June
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Plagodis dolabraria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,610
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Plagodis
Name with authority
Plagodis dolabraria (Linnaeus, 1767)
Described
1767
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1306134 · GBIF 1959914