What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Speckled Wood been recorded?

Pararge aegeria occurrence evidence comes from 222,555 records in 45 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

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

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

222,555 records across 45 countries and territories, 1830–2026.

Pararge aegeria · GBIF taxon key 8049830

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: July.

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: 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

18302026

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

Where Speckled Wood has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Speckled Wood. 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 177,594
Sweden 17,128
Germany 8,840
United Kingdom 8,753
Luxembourg 2,859
Spain 2,196
Austria 1,873
France 1,163
Romania 320
Italy 299
Ireland 276
Netherlands 236
Portugal 178
Switzerland 160
Denmark 119
Russia 101
Czechia 91
Greece 63
Croatia 33
Liechtenstein 31
Poland 30
Andorra 26
Morocco 25
Bulgaria 17
Ukraine 15
Hungary 14
Türkiye 14
Guernsey 12
Jersey 12
Slovenia 11
Lithuania 9
Albania 8
Belarus 8
Finland 8
Slovakia 8
Gibraltar 5
Azerbaijan 4
Isle of Man 4
Georgia 3
Cyprus 2

Showing the top 40 of 45 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.