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Small Elephant Hawk-moth

Deilephila porcellus

1,488Records since 2000
JunePeak month
48Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar0
Apr2
May182
Jun878
Jul261
Aug17
Sep5
Oct0
Nov2
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England261
2West Berkshire England139
3Worcestershire England134
4Cambridgeshire England20
5Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland20
6Thurrock England18
7Pembrokeshire Wales16
8Suffolk England15
9Dorset England13
10Kent England11
11Gwynedd Wales11
12Swansea Wales11
13Norfolk England9
14Surrey England8
15Bracknell Forest England8
1,385 England15 Scotland53 Wales28 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
1,488
Peak month
June
Counties with records
48
Scientific name
Deilephila porcellus
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,349
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Sphingidae
Genus
Deilephila
Name with authority
Deilephila porcellus Linnaeus, 1758
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
20

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q115128 · GBIF 1864358