Butterflies in Cornwall

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There are 59 Butterflies in the UK, 57 resident and 2 regular migrants. There are 36 Butterfly in Cornwall, 34 resident and 2 regular migrants, 1 introduced / re-introduced and 1 extinct.
 
Cornish Resident Butterflies:
1. Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni
2. Brown Argus Aricia agestis
3. Comma Polygonia c-album
4. Common Blue Polyommatus icarus
5. Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja
6. Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages
7. Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus
8. Grayling Hipparchia semele
9. Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi
10. Green-veined White Pieris napi
11. Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae
12. Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia
13. Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus
14. Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus
15. Large White Pieris brassicae
16. Marbled White Melanargia galathea
17. Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia
18. Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
19. Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines
20. Peacock Aglais io
21. Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne
22. Purple Hairstreak Favonius quercus
23. Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta
24. Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus
25. Silver-studded Blue Plebejus argus
26. Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia
27. Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas
28. Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus
29. Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris
30. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
Boloria selene
31. Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae
32. Small White Pieris rapae
33. Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria
34. Wall Brown Lasiommata megera
 
Regular Migrants:
1. Clouded Yellow Colias croceus
2. Painted Lady Vanessa cardui

​Revised Red List of GB Butterflies:
 
Regionally Extinct:
1. Black-veined White
2. Large Tortoiseshell
3. Large Copper
4. Mazarine Blue
 
Endangered:
1. Wood White
2. Wall
3. Large Heath
4. Grayling
5. High Brown Fritillary
6. Glanville Fritillary
7. Heath Fritillary
8. Black Hairstreak
 
Vulnerable:
1. Swallowtail
2. Grizzled Skipper
3. Silver-spotted Skipper
4. Small Heath
5. Scotch Argus
6. Pearl-bordered Fritillary
7. Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
8. White Admiral
9. Marsh Fritillary
10. Duke of Burgundy
11. Brown Hairstreak
12. White-letter Hairstreak
13. Silver-studded Blue
14. Northern Brown Argus
15. Adonis Blue
16. Chalk Hill Blue
 
Near Threatened:
1. Lulwoth Skipper
2. Mountain Ringlet
3. Dark Green Fritillary
4. Small Blue
5. Large Blue

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27 February 2022
Trevose Head

Red Admiral

Small Tortoiseshell

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22 March 2022
​Woodland Valley Farm, Ladock

Comma

Peacock

Small Tortoiseshell

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3 April 2022
The Dodman, Gorran

Green-veined White and Wall

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16 April 2022
Roseland Peninsula

Orange Tip

Red Admiral, Peacock and Holy Blue

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18 April 2022
North Cornwall Coast

Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral

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19 April 2022
​Crowhill Valley, Grampound

Green-veined White

Peacock, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood

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20 April 2022
Woodland Valley Farm

Speckled Wood

Red Admiral, Orange Tip and Peacock

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24 April 2022
Wheal Friendly, St Agnes

Red Admiral and Comma

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25 April 2022
Portmellon Valley, St Austell

Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Green-veined White and Holy Blue

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26 April 2022
Struddicks, Seaton

Small Copper, Orange Tip, Holy Blue, Peacock, Speckled Wood and Wall

26 April 2022: 15++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
11 May 2019: 30++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
18 May 2018: 20++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary
16 April 2017: 4x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
25 April 2016: 8x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
15 April 2015: 13x Pearl-bordered Fritillary
19 April 2014: 40++ Pearl-bordered Fritillary

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30 April 2022
Perran Sands, Perranporth

Wall, Peacock and Speckled Wood

Grizzled Skipper

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4 May 2022
Park Head, North Cornwall Coast

Pair of Small Coppers

Orange Tip, Peacock and Wall

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5 May 2022
Trevaunance, St Agnes

Small Copper, Green-veined White, Holy Blue, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Wall

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7 May 2022
Wheal Maid, Poldice, St Day

Silver-studded Blue larva

Common Blue larva

Burnet Moth larva

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8 May 2022
De Lank, St Breward

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

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15 May 2022
Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Dorset

Marsh Fritillary, Dingy Skipper and Grizzled Skipper

Duke of Burgundy

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15 May 2022
Fontmell and Melbury Downs, Dorset

Small Blue

Adonis Blue

Glanville Fritillary

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16 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward

Pearl-bordered Fritillary

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21 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

Pearl-bordered Fritillary ab. pittionii
​(Nitsche.Verh.zoolbot.Ges.Wien.1926.74-75.p.17.) vittata Nordstrom.Ent.Tidskr.1933.54.p.175.pl.5.f.11.

Upperside of the forewings with a well-developed black band in the median area stretching from the costa to inner margin. The hindwings black from the base to the median line of spots. Nordstrom named the same form in subspecies septentrionalis.

Pearl-bordered Fritillary ab. albomaculata (Goodson.Entom.1959.92.p.148.)

​Albino. All black patterning replaced by pale silvery-grey on normal ground colour. It is similar in appearance to ab. albomaculata Goodson of adippe [Argynnis adippe, High Brown Fritillary], coloured figures of which can be seen in Frohawk’s Hist.Brit.Butts.pl.13.f.17.

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22 May 2022
Kiberick Cove and Nare Head, Roseland Peninsula

Common Blue

Painted Lady, Small Copper and Wall

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23 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery

Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

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29 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery

Small Copper, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Small Heath

Marsh Fritillary

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30 May 2022​
Portmellon Valley, St Austell

Common Blue

Orange Tip, Large Skipper and Speckled Wood

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31 May 2022
Tin Coast, West Cornwall

Common Blue

Small Heath, Painted Lady and Speckled Wood

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3 June 2022
​Wheal Coates, St Agnes

Common Blue, Green Hairstreak, Large White, Small Copper, Painted Lady and Large Skipper

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5 June 2022
The Dodman, Penare, St Austell

Large Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Green-veined White,
​Meadow Brown, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood