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Butterflies in Cornwall

1/28/2022

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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

27 February 2022
Trevose Head
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Red Admiral
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Small Tortoiseshell

22 March 2022
​Woodland Valley Farm, Ladock
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Comma
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Peacock
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Small Tortoiseshell

3 April 2022
The Dodman, Gorran
Green-veined White and Wall

16 April 2022
Roseland Peninsula
Orange Tip
Red Admiral, Peacock and Holy Blue

18 April 2022
North Cornwall Coast
Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Red Admiral

19 April 2022
​Crowhill Valley, Grampound
Green-veined White
Peacock, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood

20 April 2022
Woodland Valley Farm
Speckled Wood
Red Admiral, Orange Tip and Peacock

24 April 2022
Wheal Friendly, St Agnes
Red Admiral and Comma

25 April 2022
Portmellon Valley, St Austell
Small Tortoiseshell, Peacock, Red Admiral, Speckled Wood, Green-veined White and Holy Blue

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

30 April 2022
Perran Sands, Perranporth
Wall, Peacock and Speckled Wood
Grizzled Skipper

4 May 2022
Park Head, North Cornwall Coast
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Pair of Small Coppers
Orange Tip, Peacock and Wall

5 May 2022
Trevaunance, St Agnes
Small Copper, Green-veined White, Holy Blue, Peacock, Small Tortoiseshell and Wall

7 May 2022
Wheal Maid, Poldice, St Day
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Silver-studded Blue larva
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Common Blue larva
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Burnet Moth larva

8 May 2022
De Lank, St Breward
Pearl-bordered Fritillary

15 May 2022
Cerne Abbas, Dorchester, Dorset
Marsh Fritillary, Dingy Skipper and Grizzled Skipper
Duke of Burgundy

15 May 2022
Fontmell and Melbury Downs, Dorset
Small Blue
Adonis Blue
Glanville Fritillary

16 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward
Pearl-bordered Fritillary

21 May 2022
Fellover Brake, Tuckingmill, St Breward
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Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary
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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.

22 May 2022
Kiberick Cove and Nare Head, Roseland Peninsula
Common Blue
Painted Lady, Small Copper and Wall

23 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary

29 May 2022
Breney Common, Lanlivery
Small Copper, Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary and Small Heath
Marsh Fritillary

30 May 2022​
Portmellon Valley, St Austell
Common Blue
Orange Tip, Large Skipper and Speckled Wood

31 May 2022
Tin Coast, West Cornwall

Common Blue
Small Heath, Painted Lady and Speckled Wood

3 June 2022
​Wheal Coates, St Agnes
Common Blue, Green Hairstreak, Large White, Small Copper, Painted Lady and Large Skipper

5 June 2022
The Dodman, Penare, St Austell
Large Skipper, Green Hairstreak, Green-veined White,
​Meadow Brown, Red Admiral and Speckled Wood
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