🐾 What Animal Lives Where

Where does the Gatekeeper live?

Pyronia tithonus has 1,962,513 records in 37 countries and territories, from 1809 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Gatekeeper
Gatekeeper — Charles J. Sharp / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaePyronia

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 1,539,977
France 138,037
Netherlands 132,661
Belgium 91,735
Spain 15,110
Germany 12,982
Switzerland 10,287
Luxembourg 6,668
Jersey 4,913
Guernsey 3,538
Ireland 1,872
Portugal 1,820
Italy 1,126
Serbia 467
Greece 326
Bulgaria 269
Croatia 171
Romania 155
Hungary 82
Andorra 67
Türkiye 63
North Macedonia 55
Poland 42
Slovenia 31
Albania 16
Kosovo 12
Morocco 8
Austria 4
Bosnia & Herzegovina 4
Czechia 4
Belarus 3
Isle of Man 2
Denmark 1
Liechtenstein 1
Montenegro 1
Slovakia 1
Ukraine 1

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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.