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White Letter Hairstreak

Satyrium w-album

2,866Records since 2000
JulyPeak month
58Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr1
May9
Jun456
Jul1,861
Aug382
Sep3
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Essex England272
2Worcestershire England155
3Suffolk England117
4Cambridgeshire England97
5Dorset England69
6Gloucestershire England68
7North Yorkshire England57
8Surrey England43
9Somerset England41
10Herefordshire, County of England38
11Lincolnshire England33
12Oxfordshire England29
13Norfolk England25
14Medway England22
15Cheshire East England19
2,790 England1 Scotland74 Wales

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 58 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
2,866
Peak month
July
Counties with records
58
Scientific name
Satyrium w-album
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
2,750
Conservation designations
Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981, 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
Lycaenidae
Genus
Satyrium
Name with authority
Satyrium w-album (Knoch, 1782)
Described
1782
Contributing datasets
12

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1545665 · GBIF 5882965