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Vapourer

Orgyia antiqua

1,770Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
87Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan1
Feb6
Mar6
Apr5
May102
Jun328
Jul473
Aug402
Sep267
Oct69
Nov10
Dec5

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Oxfordshire England132
2Worcestershire England80
3West Berkshire England74
4Highland Scotland73
5Kent England42
6Cambridgeshire England40
7Argyll and Bute Scotland34
8Nottinghamshire England30
9Essex England29
10York England28
11Surrey England25
12Norfolk England22
13Devon England22
14Suffolk England21
15Kingston upon Hull, City of England19
1,563 England155 Scotland27 Wales18 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 87 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
1,770
Peak month
July
Counties with records
87
Scientific name
Orgyia antiqua
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
1,022
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Orgyia
Name with authority
Orgyia antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758
Contributing datasets
26

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q25647 · GBIF 1819873