🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Knot Grass [moth] live?

Acronicta rumicis has 232,739 records in 67 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNoctuidaeAcronicta

When it is recorded

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Peak month: July. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 87,117
Finland 35,818
Netherlands 28,277
Switzerland 10,592
Germany 10,174
Austria 10,106
Denmark 9,391
Sweden 8,606
France 7,297
Spain 3,340
Norway 2,486
Lithuania 2,176
Russia 2,006
Hungary 1,784
Guernsey 1,698
Italy 1,576
Portugal 1,308
Ukraine 791
Serbia 767
Poland 731
Åland Islands 706
Romania 652
Belgium 638
Estonia 638
South Korea 631
Japan 616
Isle of Man 520
Czechia 509
Luxembourg 391
Bulgaria 329
Jersey 182
Ireland 126
Belarus 106
Greece 78
Slovakia 69
Croatia 67
Slovenia 65
Türkiye 55
Israel 41
Latvia 40

Showing the top 40 of 67 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.