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Where does the Buff ermine live?

Spilarctia lutea has 380,008 records in 51 countries and territories, from 1820 to 2026. Most records come from United Kingdom.

Buff ermine
Buff ermine β€” unknown / CC BY-SA 3.0 Β· source
AnimaliaArthropodaInsectaLepidopteraErebidaeSpilarctia

When it is recorded

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Peak month: June. 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 295,990
Netherlands 22,252
Finland 15,834
Switzerland 9,338
Sweden 6,826
Germany 4,137
Denmark 3,694
France 3,603
Austria 3,256
Guernsey 1,983
Lithuania 1,965
Norway 1,636
Isle of Man 1,443
Spain 1,276
Russia 1,055
Estonia 877
Italy 763
Portugal 507
Luxembourg 495
Ireland 491
Γ…land Islands 419
Belgium 325
Hungary 318
Jersey 310
Poland 265
South Korea 180
Serbia 174
Ukraine 114
Japan 104
Czechia 99
Romania 64
Belarus 32
Bulgaria 23
Croatia 21
Latvia 20
Georgia 17
Liechtenstein 15
India 12
Slovenia 12
Slovakia 10

Showing the top 40 of 51 places.

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Status from the records: resident
Recorded across many years and months β€” an established presence. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map β€” treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.