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Snout

Hypena proboscidalis

8,616Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
96Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb0
Mar3
Apr9
May292
Jun2,089
Jul2,284
Aug1,201
Sep1,971
Oct241
Nov19
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England1,216
2West Berkshire England1,154
3Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland404
4Worcestershire England373
5Argyll and Bute Scotland352
6Highland Scotland214
7Cambridgeshire England166
8Suffolk England161
9Norfolk England149
10Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland112
11Surrey England106
12Kent England101
13Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland96
14Telford and Wrekin England93
15Sefton England91
6,775 England1,157 Scotland114 Wales538 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 96 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
8,616
Peak month
July
Counties with records
96
Scientific name
Hypena proboscidalis
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
7,583
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Hypena
Name with authority
Hypena proboscidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
35

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q217603 · GBIF 1798807