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Scrubland Pigmy

Stigmella plagicolella

713Records since 2000
OctoberPeak month
40Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May2
Jun21
Jul54
Aug101
Sep112
Oct194
Nov31
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England180
2West Berkshire England42
3Oxfordshire England30
4Kent England19
5Cambridgeshire England16
6North Lincolnshire England14
7Suffolk England12
8Gloucestershire England12
9Rutland England12
10East Riding of Yorkshire England11
11Essex England11
12Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland11
13Nottinghamshire England9
14Telford and Wrekin England8
15Surrey England7
653 England1 Scotland4 Wales17 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 40 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
713
Peak month
October
Counties with records
40
Scientific name
Stigmella plagicolella
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
592
Most recorded in
Worcestershire
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nepticulidae
Genus
Stigmella
Name with authority
Stigmella plagicolella (Stainton, 1854) Fletcher et al., 1945
Described
1945
Contributing datasets
13

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q427960 · GBIF 5769760