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Shoulder-Striped Wainscot

Leucania comma

1,277Records since 2000
JunePeak month
49Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr0
May117
Jun690
Jul207
Aug34
Sep5
Oct3
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Worcestershire England206
2West Berkshire England170
3Oxfordshire England73
4Suffolk England60
5Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland38
6Kent England31
7Rutland England18
8Highland Scotland17
9Gwynedd Wales16
10Bracknell Forest England14
11Cambridgeshire England12
12Surrey England11
13Sefton England11
14Telford and Wrekin England10
15Dorset England9
1,151 England36 Scotland39 Wales42 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 49 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,277
Peak month
June
Counties with records
49
Scientific name
Leucania comma
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,146
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Leucania
Name with authority
Leucania comma Linnaeus, 1761
Described
1761
Contributing datasets
23

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2357252 · GBIF 5111574