🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Comma live?

Polygonia c-album has 1,616,539 records in 72 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Comma
Comma — Quartl / CC BY-SA 3.0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaePolygonia

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.

Where it is recorded

PlaceRecordsShare
United Kingdom 837,929
Netherlands 235,706
France 123,097
Belgium 102,548
Germany 73,528
Finland 54,663
Switzerland 51,060
Sweden 37,738
Austria 18,053
Denmark 16,968
Spain 9,405
Poland 6,688
Russia 6,549
Norway 6,314
Serbia 5,390
Italy 4,630
Ireland 3,353
Hungary 2,815
Lithuania 2,625
Luxembourg 2,603
Czechia 1,678
Estonia 1,566
Ukraine 1,450
Guernsey 1,373
Jersey 1,196
Portugal 1,025
Japan 892
Romania 872
Bulgaria 654
Åland Islands 582
Slovakia 423
Slovenia 347
Türkiye 288
Greece 280
Isle of Man 269
China 268
Belarus 260
Croatia 256
North Macedonia 148
Taiwan 125

Showing the top 40 of 72 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.