What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Ringlet been recorded?

Aphantopus hyperantus occurrence evidence comes from 103,464 records in 33 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Ringlet
Ringlet — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeAphantopus

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

103,464 records across 33 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Aphantopus hyperantus · GBIF taxon key 1896841

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: July.

2 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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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.

Records over time

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Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Ringlet has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Ringlet. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 60,642
Belgium 25,302
United Kingdom 5,443
Luxembourg 4,625
Germany 3,552
Austria 1,662
France 677
Romania 225
Finland 206
Russia 178
Spain 176
Ireland 140
Denmark 136
Netherlands 98
Switzerland 91
Czechia 64
Italy 51
Poland 48
Liechtenstein 43
Estonia 37
Lithuania 12
Slovakia 10
Ukraine 9
South Korea 8
Belarus 6
Norway 5
Andorra 4
Bulgaria 4
Latvia 4
China 2
Greece 1
Hungary 1
Mongolia 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. 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.