What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Common Wainscot been recorded?

Mythimna pallens occurrence evidence comes from 17,506 records in 27 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Common Wainscot
Common Wainscot — Photo (display-sized rendition): James K. Lindsey · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNoctuidaeMythimna

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

17,506 records across 27 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Mythimna pallens · GBIF taxon key 5772196

Source coverage

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

Refreshed 2026-09-21. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

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

4 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: August. 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 Common Wainscot has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Common Wainscot. 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 11,940
Austria 1,658
Luxembourg 1,320
United Kingdom 1,039
Romania 438
France 370
Belgium 329
Germany 156
Italy 73
Netherlands 54
Czechia 49
Switzerland 17
Denmark 15
Hungary 11
Finland 10
South Korea 9
United States 4
Ireland 3
Åland Islands 2
Canada 1
Lithuania 1
Norway 1
Poland 1
Russia 1
Slovenia 1
Slovakia 1
ZZ 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.