What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Gatekeeper been recorded?

Pyronia tithonus occurrence evidence comes from 109,380 records in 21 countries and territories, from 1830 to 2026. Most records come from Belgium.

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

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

109,380 records across 21 countries and territories, 1830–2026.

Pyronia tithonus · GBIF taxon key 7622059

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.

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: 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 Gatekeeper has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Gatekeeper. 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 90,325
United Kingdom 6,820
Luxembourg 5,438
Germany 4,953
France 984
Spain 486
Romania 84
Netherlands 79
Ireland 76
Bulgaria 39
Portugal 24
Italy 21
Jersey 13
Switzerland 11
Guernsey 7
Andorra 5
Croatia 5
Albania 3
Türkiye 3
Slovenia 2
Greece 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.