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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

Any corrections are marked with a **

 

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 sylvanus 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 Trosley 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 Plebeius agestis 27th April Aylesford
  Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 16th April Leybourne
  Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon 7th July Welling
  Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus 26th April Cheriron Hill
  Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 5th April Coxheath
  Duke of Burgundy Hamearis lucina 21st April Denge
  White Admiral Limenitis 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 Most likely extinct (Kent)
  Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 14th June

White Hill Reserve

  Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 7th July Dean Park
  Heath Fritillary Melitaea 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 Downs & Darland Bank
  Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 22nd April Trosley Country Park
  Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 17th June East Blean Woods

 
 
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