What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Dark Green Fritillary been recorded?

Speyeria aglaja occurrence evidence comes from 35,688 records in 36 countries and territories, from 1828 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Dark Green Fritillary
Dark Green Fritillary — Photo (display-sized rendition): Hectonichus · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
InsectaLepidopteraNymphalidaeSpeyeria

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

35,688 records across 36 countries and territories, 1828–2026.

Speyeria aglaja · GBIF taxon key 6221746

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-08-23. 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.

3 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

18282026

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

Where Dark Green Fritillary has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Dark Green Fritillary. 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
Sweden 29,599
United Kingdom 2,229
Austria 1,095
Germany 789
Luxembourg 497
Spain 368
France 301
Romania 181
Belgium 109
Italy 89
Ireland 83
Finland 81
Switzerland 63
Russia 60
Czechia 24
Netherlands 24
Andorra 16
Norway 13
Denmark 12
Liechtenstein 11
Kazakhstan 6
Croatia 5
Japan 5
Slovakia 5
Bulgaria 3
Morocco 3
Estonia 2
Greece 2
Hungary 2
South Korea 2
Poland 2
Åland Islands 1
Montenegro 1
Mongolia 1
Slovenia 1
Ukraine 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.