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Where does the Speckled Wood live?

Pararge aegeria has 3,491,055 records in 69 countries and territories, from 1809 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Speckled Wood
Speckled Wood — Photo: Charles J. Sharp · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaePararge

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

18092026

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

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 2,095,930
Netherlands 533,583
France 271,753
Belgium 179,492
Switzerland 99,207
Germany 74,675
Spain 49,795
Ireland 48,282
Denmark 26,144
Sweden 17,730
Austria 14,036
Portugal 12,234
Italy 9,166
Jersey 8,885
Guernsey 8,746
Finland 7,195
Poland 5,213
Luxembourg 4,218
Serbia 3,482
Russia 2,827
Norway 2,425
Lithuania 1,952
Isle of Man 1,827
Greece 1,740
Czechia 1,590
Hungary 1,569
Ukraine 981
Croatia 698
Romania 686
Morocco 645
Türkiye 527
Slovenia 485
Åland Islands 443
Estonia 436
Slovakia 321
Algeria 313
Bulgaria 307
Belarus 270
North Macedonia 156
Albania 142

Showing the top 40 of 69 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months — an established presence. 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.