What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Riband Wave been recorded?

Idaea aversata occurrence evidence comes from 29,856 records in 30 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Riband Wave
Riband Wave — Photo (display-sized rendition): Photo by User:Monedula. · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraGeometridaeIdaea

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

29,856 records across 30 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Idaea aversata · GBIF taxon key 5146559

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-22. 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.

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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 Riband Wave has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Riband Wave. 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 18,431
United Kingdom 3,717
Austria 3,179
Germany 1,386
Luxembourg 1,216
Belgium 747
France 573
Czechia 104
Netherlands 76
Denmark 72
Italy 69
Bulgaria 59
Finland 57
Switzerland 39
Russia 35
Ireland 30
Hungary 11
Poland 9
Estonia 7
Spain 6
Romania 6
Croatia 5
Lithuania 3
Serbia 3
Slovenia 3
Slovakia 3
Portugal 2
Albania 1
Greece 1
Ukraine 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.