What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Brimstone been recorded?

Gonepteryx rhamni occurrence evidence comes from 226,247 records in 44 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Brimstone
Brimstone — Photo (display-sized rendition): Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraPieridaeGonepteryx

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

226,247 records across 44 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Gonepteryx rhamni · GBIF taxon key 1920712

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: April.

7 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: April. 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 Brimstone has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Brimstone. 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 105,304
Belgium 97,152
Germany 11,641
Austria 3,412
Luxembourg 3,142
United Kingdom 2,084
Spain 974
France 943
Russia 284
Romania 273
Finland 206
Netherlands 129
Switzerland 119
Italy 102
Czechia 72
Denmark 71
Ireland 51
Poland 44
Liechtenstein 42
Andorra 31
Estonia 22
Lithuania 20
Slovenia 15
Croatia 12
Norway 12
Belarus 10
Portugal 9
Ukraine 9
Bulgaria 7
Latvia 7
Hungary 6
India 6
Albania 5
Bosnia & Herzegovina 5
Slovakia 5
Greece 4
Kazakhstan 4
Türkiye 4
Israel 2
North Macedonia 2

Showing the top 40 of 44 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.