About Earthynature of Britain
  1. Home
  2. Species
  3. Wood tiger
Species · Butterflies and moths

Wood tiger

Parasemia plantaginis

238Records since 2000
JunePeak month
39Counties with records

When it is recorded

Jan0
Feb0
Mar0
Apr5
May28
Jun124
Jul68
Aug2
Sep2
Oct0
Nov0
Dec0

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

Where it is recorded

#CountyNationRecordsShare
1Highland Scotland50
2Worcestershire England19
3Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland19
4Argyll and Bute Scotland13
5Oxfordshire England11
6Causeway Coast and Glens Northern Ireland10
7Aberdeenshire Scotland7
8Moray Scotland5
9Perth and Kinross Scotland4
10Stirling Scotland4
11Newry, Mourne and Down Northern Ireland4
12Dorset England3
13North Yorkshire England3
14Cumbria England3
15Powys Wales3
79 England117 Scotland16 Wales26 Northern Ireland

Records per county (GADM level 2) and per nation; one record can count towards several areas. 39 counties in all.

About this species

Records since 2000
238
Peak month
June
Counties with records
39
Scientific name
Parasemia plantaginis
Group
Butterflies and moths
NBN Atlas records since 2000
167
Most recorded in
Highland
Conservation designations
Biodiversity List – Northern Ireland
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Class
Insecta
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Erebidae
Genus
Parasemia
Name with authority
Parasemia plantaginis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Described
1758

Sources: GBIF occurrence data (CC0 / CC BY), JNCC Taxon Designations (OGL), NBN Atlas (open licences), Wikidata (CC0) · Wikidata Q1070697 · GBIF 1808752