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Small Heath

Coenonympha pamphilus

347,993Records since 2000
JunePeak month
114Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb1
Mar148
Apr1,018
May39,821
Jun112,670
Jul85,242
Aug70,528
Sep37,364
Oct166
Nov3
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England31,066
2Surrey England27,545
3Somerset England12,231
4Cumbria England9,162
5Gloucestershire England9,022
6Kent England8,726
7Essex England8,554
8Cambridgeshire England7,982
9North Yorkshire England7,536
10Oxfordshire England6,772
11Isle of Wight England5,952
12Lincolnshire England5,407
13Suffolk England5,350
14Highland Scotland5,228
15Worcestershire England3,206
307,488 England21,527 Scotland12,935 Wales4,043 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 114 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
347,993
Peak month
June
Counties with records
114
Scientific name
Coenonympha pamphilus
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
352,971
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland, Scottish Biodiversity List, Biodiversity List – England, Biodiversity List – Wales, GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria), UK BAP priority species
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Coenonympha
Name with authority
Coenonympha pamphilus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
59

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q855094 · GBIF 1911461