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Where does the Small Tortoiseshell live?

Aglais urticae has 2,607,931 records in 73 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Small Tortoiseshell
Small Tortoiseshell — Jörg Hempel / CC BY-SA 3.0 de · source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeAglais

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 1,405,850
Netherlands 274,832
Switzerland 205,665
Finland 142,144
France 112,118
Sweden 91,702
Germany 82,695
Belgium 74,358
Denmark 63,121
Ireland 32,354
Austria 28,770
Norway 25,201
Russia 13,163
Spain 10,745
Luxembourg 8,670
Poland 7,177
Italy 6,060
Estonia 3,579
Åland Islands 2,862
Isle of Man 2,843
Lithuania 2,497
Serbia 1,823
Czechia 1,671
Guernsey 1,111
Jersey 831
Türkiye 486
Romania 417
Hungary 408
Liechtenstein 370
Slovenia 358
Georgia 357
China 316
Bulgaria 301
Andorra 291
Ukraine 290
Kazakhstan 284
Slovakia 280
Belarus 252
Japan 226
Portugal 208

Showing the top 40 of 73 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.