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Small Angle Shades

Euplexia lucipara

1,893Records since 2000
JunePeak month
75Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr2
May204
Jun877
Jul502
Aug47
Sep29
Oct0
Nov5
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Argyll and Bute Scotland341
2Worcestershire England190
3Highland Scotland115
4Antrim and Newtownabbey Northern Ireland95
5West Berkshire England92
6Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland61
7Mid and East Antrim Northern Ireland60
8Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland60
9Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland52
10Norfolk England41
11Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland41
12Sefton England32
13Oxfordshire England29
14Gwynedd Wales29
15Telford and Wrekin England29
833 England569 Scotland79 Wales398 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 75 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,893
Peak month
June
Counties with records
75
Scientific name
Euplexia lucipara
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,660
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Euplexia
Name with authority
Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
27

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q649260 · GBIF 1776619