What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Large Skipper been recorded?

Ochlodes venata occurrence evidence comes from 103,189 records in 38 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

Large Skipper
Large Skipper — Photo (display-sized rendition): Alpsdake · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraHesperiidaeOchlodes

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

103,189 records across 38 countries and territories, 1830–2026.

Ochlodes venata · GBIF taxon key 7389824

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.

2 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

18302026

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

Where Large Skipper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Large Skipper. 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 45,882
Sweden 43,884
Germany 4,541
United Kingdom 2,815
Luxembourg 2,020
Austria 1,620
France 781
Spain 317
Romania 280
Italy 218
Russia 216
Finland 108
Denmark 88
Netherlands 84
South Korea 62
Switzerland 56
Czechia 30
Estonia 27
Liechtenstein 27
Poland 23
Bulgaria 22
Hungary 14
Croatia 13
Ukraine 13
Andorra 8
Bosnia & Herzegovina 7
Slovenia 7
Jersey 5
Slovakia 5
Latvia 3
DR Congo 2
Greece 2
Norway 2
Algeria 1
Japan 1
Kazakhstan 1
Lithuania 1
Portugal 1

Related animals

Others in the family Hesperiidae.

Small Skipper
Small Skipper
10,602 records
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.