| Butterfly First Sightings in Kent for 2007 |
Last updated on 13th August 2007
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
| Species Name | Latin Name | First sighting | Location |
| Small Skipper | Thymelicus sylvestris | 9th June |
Dover |
| Essex Skipper | Thymelicus lineola | 10th June | Darland Bank |
| Silver-spotted Skipper | Hesperia comma | 22nd July | Lydden |
| Large Skipper | Ochlodes venata | 20th May | Samphire Hoe |
| Dingy Skipper | Erynnis tages | 8th April | Trosley Country Park |
| Grizzled Skipper | Pyrgus malvae | 8th April | Trosley Country Park |
| Clouded Yellow | Colias croceus | 10th April | South Swale |
| Brimstone | Gonepteryx rhamni | 15th March | Sellindge |
| Large White | Pieris brassicae | 7th April | Chalk |
| Small White | Pieris rapae | 11th April | Ramsgate |
| Green-veined White | Pieris napi | 22nd March | Sellindge |
| Orange Tip | Anthocharis cardamines | 27th March | Trosley Country Park |
| Green Hairstreak | Callophrys rubi | 8th April | Trolsey Country Park |
| Purple Hairstreak | Neozephyrus quercus | 17th June | East Blean Woods |
| White-letter Hairstreak | Satyrium w-album | 10th June | Warehorne |
| Small Copper | Lycaena phlaeas | 9th April | Dungeness |
| Small Blue | Cupido minimus | 25th May | Kingsgate |
| Brown Argus | Aricia agestis | 27th April | Aylesford |
| Common Blue | Polyommatus icarus | 16th April | Leybourne |
| Chalkhill Blue | Lysandra coridon | 7th July | Welling |
| Adonis Blue | Lysandra bellargus | 26th April | Cheriron Hill |
| Holly Blue | Celastrina argiolus | 5th April | Coxheath |
| Duke of Burgundy | Hamearis lucina | 21st April | Denge |
| White Admiral | Ladoga camilla | 12th June | Hamstreet Woods |
| Purple Emperor | Apatura iris | 8th July | Orlestone Forest |
| Red Admiral | Vanessa atalanta | 2nd January | Margate |
| Painted Lady | Cynthia cardui | 28th March | Walmer |
| Small Tortoiseshell | Aglais urticae | 31st January | Mereworth |
| Peacock | Inachis io | 4th January | Maidstone |
| Comma | Polygonia c-album | 11th March | Chiddingstone |
| Pearl-bordered Fritillary | Boloria euphrosyne | N/A | Sadly most likely extinct in Kent |
| Dark Green Fritillary | Argynnis aglaja | 14th June | White Hill Reserve |
| Silver-washed Fritillary | Argynnis paphia | 7th July | Dean Park |
| Heath Fritillary | Mellicta athalia | 20th May | East Blean Woods |
| Speckled Wood | Pararge aegeria | 2nd April | Kennington |
| Wall Brown | Lasiommata megera | 11th April | Folkestone Warren |
| Marbled White | Melanargia galathea | 9th June | Darland Bank |
| Grayling | Hipparchia semele | 31st July | Folkestone Warren |
| Gatekeeper | Pyronia tithonus | 3rd July | Eythorne |
| Meadow Brown | Maniola jurtina | 2nd June | Hollingbourne & Darland Bank |
| Small Heath | Coenonympha pamphilus | 22nd April | Trosley Country Park |
| Ringlet | Aphantopus hyperantus | 17th June | East Blean Woods |