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Butterfly First Sightings In Kent For 2002  

Last updated on 20th June 2002

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

Any corrections are marked with a **

 

Species Name

Latin Name First Sighting Location
  Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris 13th June Kingston
  Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola    
  Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma    
  Large Skipper Ochlodes sylvanus 29th May Cherry Garden Hill, Folkestone
  Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 21st April Kemsing Downs
  Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 17th April Trosley Country Park
  Clouded Yellow Colias croceus 17th March Rochester
  Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 13th March Orpington
  Large White Pieris brassicae 28th March Tunbridge Wells
  Small White Pieris rapae 16th March Tunbridge Wells
 

Green-veined White

 Pieris napi    
  Orange Tip Anthocharis cardamines 29th March Bromley
  Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi 17th April Trosley Country Park
  Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus    
  White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album    
  Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 1st April Sandwich Bay
  Small Blue Cupido minimus 3rd June Kingsdown
  Brown Argus Plebeius agestis 7th May Sanwich
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 7th May Alkham
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon    
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 16th May Cheriton Hill, Folkestone
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 29th March Barehurst
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 25th May

Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis camilla    
 

Purple Emperor

Apatura iris    
  Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 9th January Cliffe Woods & Ashford
  Painted Lady Cynthia cardui 215th May Sandwich
  Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae 30th January Gravesend
  Peacock Inachis io 9th March Ditton
  Comma Polygonia c-album

14th February

Firmwell
  Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne 15th May Canterbury Area
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja  

 
  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia    
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia 31st May East Blean Woods
  Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria 25th March Rochester
  Wall Brown Lasiommata megera    
  Marbled White Melanargia galathea    
  Grayling Hipparchia semele    
  Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus    
  Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina 9th June Cheriton Hill, Folkestone
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 21st April Sanwich
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus

19th June

White Hill Reserve

 
 
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