What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Small Heath been recorded?

Coenonympha pamphilus occurrence evidence comes from 123,475 records in 49 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

Small Heath
Small Heath — Photo (display-sized rendition): Ivar Leidus · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeCoenonympha

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

123,475 records across 49 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Coenonympha pamphilus · GBIF taxon key 1911461

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: June.

5 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: June. 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 Small Heath has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Small Heath. 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
Belgium 47,239
Sweden 40,226
Luxembourg 12,313
Germany 11,057
United Kingdom 5,641
Austria 2,705
France 1,632
Spain 665
Romania 498
Italy 313
Netherlands 142
Russia 141
Bulgaria 128
Denmark 105
Switzerland 103
Czechia 102
Ireland 89
Liechtenstein 43
Finland 36
Poland 34
Ukraine 32
Greece 29
Andorra 27
Croatia 18
Hungary 15
Portugal 15
Türkiye 15
Slovakia 12
Slovenia 11
Albania 9
Guernsey 9
Morocco 8
Uzbekistan 8
Lithuania 7
Bosnia & Herzegovina 6
Malta 6
Latvia 5
Belarus 4
Estonia 4
Jersey 4

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.