– click for Adult Macro Verification Guidelines
– Significant Record / Very Rare / Vagrant
– easy to identify, generally distinctive and unlikely to be confused with other species.Once restricted to the Channel Islands and parts of the south coast, it now seems to be expanding its range rather rapidly. It is still a major rarity this far north and so it is uncertain how this specimen arrived in a garden in Clowne, Derbyshire. A record this year also from Worksop, Notts and one from South Lincolnshire, close to the Notts border. So it is spreading.
Forewing: 28-33mm
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Distribution Map for Euplagia quadripunctaria
↳ 0 from After 2025
↳ 3 from 2020 - 2024
↳ 0 from Before 2020
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Bedrock Geology ** indirectly affects moth distribution by influencing the type of habitat and food plants available in an area. In turn, this may affect the types of moths that can thrive, or where they can most likely be found.
Land-cover * shows the variety of land-cover within the VC57 area, based on the CORINE (Coordination of Information on the Environment) forty-four thematic classes of land-cover. This will show, to a greater or lesser degree, the number and variety of moths found in different land-cover types. The UK continues to operate within the Copernicus programme, with the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) providing Corine Land Cover (CLC) datasets for the UK and its territories.
NBN Atlas UK Distribution for – Euplagia quadripunctaria
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Note – the NBN Atlas datasets are listed in the map below and vary in their currency (uptodateness) – however,
the map does give a general indication of the moth's distribution across the UK.
Monthly Records By Year:
Euplagia quadripunctaria
( data includes both Larvae and Adult Stages )
Monthly Counts By Year: Euplagia quadripunctaria
( data is based on 'Adult' stage records only. )
First/Last Recorded Dates: Euplagia quadripunctaria
Adult-only & Anything [Larvae, Pupae, Adult, Mines]
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Recordings By Year: Euplagia quadripunctaria
( All data includes both Larvae and Adult Stages )
Annual Growth Rate (AGR): Euplagia quadripunctaria
AGR: 0% | Total % Change: 0%
CUSUM Analysis: Euplagia quadripunctaria
Counts for the current year (2025) are pro-rated based on data available up to month 7 (July) to provide a full-year equivalent.
What the Y-axis "Cumulative Deviation" means: Cumulative Deviation shows the running total of how each year’s moth population count differs from the long-term average. i
Hectad (10kmx10km) Coverage: Euplagia quadripunctaria
( data includes both Larvae and Adult Stages )
Flight Periods – Indicative –vs– Recorded Data
Euplagia quadripunctaria
Euplagia quadripunctaria
( data includes Adult Stage only )
Flight Period chart – the grey hatched area above, which can cross one or more months, pictorially represents the best guess we have for this moth's flight periods [month/s]. The coloured lines represent the actual months seen in flight, from site observation records received between 2020-2025.
Records Behind the Map and Charts - Euplagia quadripunctaria – 3 records available
Listed by Year - descending - scroll across to see all table columns
| Taxon | Site Name | Tetrad | Year | Date | Count | Stage | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Euplagia quadripunctaria | Chaddesden, Derby | SK33T | 2024 | 31/07/2024 | 1 | adult | vc57_irecords_extract |
| Euplagia quadripunctaria | Clowne | SK47X | 2020 | 09/09/2020 | 1 | Adult | vc57_irecords_extract |
| Euplagia quadripunctaria | Low Rd, Clowne | SK47X | 2020 | 09/09/2020 | 1 | adult | Danes_2019-2021 |