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Small Emerald

Hemistola chrysoprasaria

695Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
28Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr0
May3
Jun114
Jul471
Aug32
Sep31
Oct4
Nov1
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England176
2West Berkshire England104
3Worcestershire England27
4Cambridgeshire England10
5Essex England10
6Kent England7
7Surrey England6
8Dorset England5
9Pembrokeshire Wales5
10Norfolk England4
11Devon England3
12Isle of Anglesey Wales3
13Swansea Wales3
14Telford and Wrekin England3
15Suffolk England2
665 England1 Scotland19 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 28 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
695
Peak month
July
Counties with records
28
Scientific name
Hemistola chrysoprasaria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
626
Most recorded in
Oxfordshire, West Berkshire
Conservation designations
Scottish Biodiversity List, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Geometridae
Genus
Hemistola
Name with authority
Hemistola chrysoprasaria (Esper, 1794)
Described
1794
Contributing datasets
15

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q2325664 · GBIF 1991179