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Speckled Wood

Pararge aegeria

798,810Records since 2000
AugustPeak month
123Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan8
Feb5
Mar458
Apr46,200
May94,553
Jun137,643
Jul132,501
Aug216,409
Sep163,954
Oct4,120
Nov26
Dec3

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Dorset England52,999
2Somerset England33,793
3Surrey England32,110
4Cumbria England27,022
5Cornwall England17,815
6Suffolk England17,471
7Devon England16,731
8Essex England15,921
9Kent England15,355
10Cambridgeshire England14,691
11Gloucestershire England12,876
12Norfolk England11,091
13Oxfordshire England10,578
14Worcestershire England8,588
15North Yorkshire England7,882
741,199 England13,247 Scotland24,798 Wales10,456 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 123 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
798,810
Peak month
August
Counties with records
123
Scientific name
Pararge aegeria
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
798,770
Conservation designations
GB Red List (2001 IUCN criteria)
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Nymphalidae
Genus
Pararge
Name with authority
Pararge aegeria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
51

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q663181 · GBIF 8049830