What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Silver-washed Fritillary been recorded?

Argynnis paphia occurrence evidence comes from 63,011 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Silver-washed Fritillary
Silver-washed Fritillary — Photo (display-sized rendition): Uoaei1 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeArgynnis

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

63,011 records across 49 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Argynnis paphia · GBIF taxon key 1909398

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.

3 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.

Compare this animal’s observation pattern

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

18002026

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

Where Silver-washed Fritillary has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Silver-washed Fritillary. 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 41,620
Germany 6,681
Belgium 4,372
Luxembourg 2,686
United Kingdom 2,469
Austria 1,745
Spain 663
France 645
Russia 417
South Korea 291
Romania 280
Italy 226
Switzerland 171
Ireland 171
Finland 169
Denmark 61
Czechia 54
Poland 32
Bulgaria 28
Netherlands 25
Croatia 19
Slovenia 18
Slovakia 14
Azerbaijan 13
Greece 12
Estonia 11
Hungary 11
Ukraine 11
Japan 10
Liechtenstein 10
Albania 8
Norway 8
Andorra 7
Bosnia & Herzegovina 6
Belarus 6
Kazakhstan 6
Latvia 6
Lithuania 4
North Macedonia 4
Åland Islands 3

Showing the top 40 of 49 places.

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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.