| Butterfly First Sightings in Kent for 2008 |
Last updated on 20th June 2008
Please email any sightings to Mike Easterbrook - Kent Branch Butterfly Recorder or use
our online recording system, by clicking here.
When making your report please
try to include a map reference and also the number of specimens
seen
If you have seen a certain species, early this year than listed below, please let us know by email.
Any corrections are marked with a **
| Species Name | Latin Name | First sighting | Location |
| Small Skipper | Thymelicus sylvestris | 7th June |
Chiddingstone |
| Essex Skipper | Thymelicus lineola |
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| Silver-spotted Skipper | Hesperia comma |
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| Large Skipper | Ochlodes sylvanus | 10th June |
Lydden |
| Dingy Skipper | Erynnis tages | 16th April |
Dover |
| Grizzled Skipper | Pyrgus malvae | 22nd April |
Trosley Country Park |
| Clouded Yellow | Colias croceus | 29th March |
Samphire Hoe, Dover |
| Brimstone | Gonepteryx rhamni | 19th January |
Eastry |
| Large White | Pieris brassicae | 20th April |
Bough Beech |
| Small White | Pieris rapae | 29th March |
Dover |
| Green-veined White | Pieris napi | 3rd April |
Ramsgate |
| Orange Tip | Anthocharis cardamines | 3rd April |
Denge Woods |
| Green Hairstreak | Callophrys rubi | 3rd April |
Dover |
| Purple Hairstreak | Neozephyrus quercus |
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| White-letter Hairstreak | Satyrium w-album |
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| Small Copper | Lycaena phlaeas | 3rd April |
X |
| Small Blue | Cupido minimus | 12th May |
Kingsdown, Deal |
| Brown Argus | Plebeius agestis | 5th May |
Lydden |
| Common Blue | Polyommatus icarus | 22nd April |
Dover |
| Chalkhill Blue | Polyommatus coridon |
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| Adonis Blue | Polyommatus bellargus | 22nd April |
Dover |
| Holly Blue | Celastrina argiolus | 20th April |
Bough Beech |
| Duke of Burgundy | Hamearis lucina | 3rd May |
Denge Forest |
| White Admiral | Limenitis camilla | 14th June |
Chiddingstone |
| Purple Emperor | Apatura iris | ||
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta | 1st January | Gravesend |
| Painted Lady | Cynthia cardui |
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| Small Tortoiseshell | Aglais urticae | 11th February |
West Wickham |
| Peacock | Inachis io | 9th February |
Queendown Warren |
| Comma | Polygonia c-album | 9th February |
West Blean Woods |
| Pearl-bordered Fritillary | Boloria euphrosyne | N/A | Sadly most likely extinct in Kent |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Argynnis aglaja |
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| Silver-washed Fritillary | Argynnis paphia |
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| Heath Fritillary | Melitaea athalia | ** 23rd May |
West Blean Woods |
| Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | 3rd April |
Hamstreet |
| Wall Brown | Lasiommata megera | 22nd April |
Dover |
| Marbled White | Melanargia galathea | 15th June |
Langdon |
| Grayling | Hipparchia semele |
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| Gatekeeper | Pyronia tithonus |
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| Meadow Brown | Maniola jurtina | 8th June |
Chiddingstone |
| Small Heath | Coenonympha pamphilus | 22nd April |
Dover |
| Ringlet | Aphantopus hyperantus | 16th June |
Temple Ewell, Lydden |