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Abrostola tripartita

5,896Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
82Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar1
Apr92
May809
Jun1,534
Jul1,595
Aug1,241
Sep183
Oct1
Nov11
Dec1

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England1,115
2West Berkshire England686
3Worcestershire England338
4Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland314
5Argyll and Bute Scotland311
6Norfolk England143
7Cambridgeshire England140
8Highland Scotland124
9Sefton England92
10Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland83
11Kent England73
12Suffolk England71
13Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland69
14Lisburn and Castlereagh Northern Ireland60
15Telford and Wrekin England58
4,527 England819 Scotland101 Wales411 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 82 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
5,896
Peak month
July
Counties with records
82
Scientific name
Abrostola tripartita
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
5,152
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Noctuidae
Genus
Abrostola
Name with authority
Abrostola tripartita (Hufnagel, 1766)
Described
1766
Contributing datasets
28

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1945688 · GBIF 1767625