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Butterfly First Sightings In Kent For 2010  

Last updated on 16th July 2010

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 **

(OR) = Online Record

Any species currently without any first sighting is marked with a -

 

Species Name

Latin Name First Sighting Location
  Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris 21st June (OR) Orpington
  Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola 30th June (OR) Sandwich
  Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma - -
  Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus 13th June (OR) Chiddingstone
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 24th April Folkestone Warren
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 17th April Trosley
  Clouded Yellow Colias croceus 20th April (OR) Dover
  Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 7th February Snodland
  Large White Pieris brassicae 15th April (OR) Dover
  Small White Pieris rapae 3rd April (OR) Teynham
 

Green-veined White

 Pieris napi 9th April (OR) Dover
  Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines

8th April (OR)

 Orpington
  Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi 18th April (OR) Queendown Warren
  Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus 2nd July (OR) Tonbridge
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album 23rd June (OR) Temple Ewell
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 20th April (OR) Dover
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 22nd May (OR) Kingsdown
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 23rd May (OR) Queendown Warren
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 19th May (OR) Dover
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon - -
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 19th May (OR) Dover
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 9th April (OR) Petts Wood, Elmley
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 24th April (OR) Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis camilla 26th June (OR) Tonbridge
 

Purple Emperor

Apatura iris 3rd July (OR) Hamstreet
  Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 15th March (OR) Hadlow
  Painted Lady Cynthia cardui 8th June (OR) Broadstairs
  Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae 17th March (OR) Herne Bay
  Peacock Inachis io 4th January Chartham
  Comma Polygonia c-album 15th March (OR) Bridge
  Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne N/A Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 26th June Lunningstone CP
  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 27th June (OR) Leigh
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 4th June (OR) East Blean Woods
  Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria 12th April (OR) Sholden
  Wall Brown Lasiommata megera 18th April (OR) Dover
  Marbled White Melanargia galathea 22nd June (OR) Walmer
  Grayling Hipparchia semele - -
  Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus 6th July (OR) Tonbridge
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina 14th June (OR) Otford
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 4th May (OR) Brook
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 21st June (OR) Orpington

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