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SPECIES INFORMATION AND FIRST SIGHTINGS FOR 2003

This table shows the earliest sightings of resident and migratory species in the West Midlands region.

Further early sightings information and some photographs are also available. 

Click on the name to see further information about each species on the Butterfly Conservation website.
The information page also has a link to the National Biodiversity Network Gateway where you can
see a distribution atlas for each species.

Mail your local sightings to njstone@hotmail.com


Vernacular name Scientific name First sighting Location Seen By
Chequered Skipper Carterocephalus palaemon      
Small Skipper Thymelicus sylvestris 14/06/03 Ashlawn Cutting, Rugby Val Weston
Essex Skipper Thymelicus lineola 03/07/03 Bordsley Abbey, Redditch A. Western
Lulworth Skipper Thymelicus acteon      
Silver-spotted Skipper Hesperia comma      
Large Skipper Ochlodes venata 31/05/03 Anchor Meadow, Aldridge Peter Newell
Dingy Skipper Erynnis tages 18/04/03 Croft Farm Colin & Helen Dolding
Grizzled Skipper Pyrgus malvae 23/04/03 Pipeline, Wyre Forest Jenny Joy
Swallowtail Papilio machaon      
Wood White Leptidea sinapis 04/05/03 Shavers End Quarry &
Monkwood
Trevor Bucknall
Clouded Yellow Colias croceus 03/08/03 Upper Bittell Reservoir Robert Wardle
Brimstone Gonepteryx rhamni 17/03/03 Ludlow By-pass, Salop Bill Davidson
Large White Pieris brassicae 15/04/03 Dog pub, Harvington Dave White
Small White Pieris rapae 23/03/03 Halesowen Dave White
Green-veined White Pieris napi 25/03/03 Halesowen Dave White
Orange-tip Anthocharis cardamines 31/03/03 Kinver Steve Harper
Green Hairstreak Callophrys rubi 16/04/03 Pensnett Trading Estate, Dudley Richard Southwell
Brown Hairstreak Thecla betulae 10/08/03 Grafton Wood Trevor Bucknall
Purple Hairstreak Neozephyrus quercus 28/06/03 Grafton Wood Trevor Bucknall
White-letter Hairstreak Satyrium w-album 26/06/03 Offerton Trevor Bucknall
Black Hairstreak Satyrium pruni      
Small Copper Lycaena phlaeas 14/04/03 Malvern Hills Colin Dolding
Small Blue Cupido minimus      
Silver-studded Blue Plebeius argus 24/6/03 Prees Heath Richard & Jane Southwell
Brown Argus Aricia agestis
04/06/03
Charlecote Park Richard Southwell & Phil Pain
Northern Brown Argus Aricia artaxerxes      
Common Blue Polyommatus icarus 12/05/03 Bedstone, Salop Bill Davidson
Chalkhill Blue Polyommatus coridon      
Adonis Blue Polyommatus bellargus      
Holly Blue Celastrina argiolus 27/03/03 Hallow, Worcs Trevor Bucknall
Large Blue Maculinea arion      
White Admiral Limenitis camilla 15/06/03 Knightsgrove Wood Trevor Bucknall
Purple Emperor Apatura iris      
Red Admiral Vanessa atalanta 16/03/03 Sherbrook Valley,
 Cannock Chase
Pete Johnson
Painted Lady Vanessa cardui 05/05/03 Crossway Green, Worcs Michael Southall
Small Tortoiseshell Aglais urticae 25/02/03 Great Malvern Colin & Helen Dolding
Peacock Inachis io 06/03/03 Radnor Wood, Salop Bill Davidson
Comma Polygonia c-album 23/02/03 Radnor Wood, Salop Bill Davidson
Small Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria selene 24/05/03 Postensplain, Wyre Forest Dave Grundy
Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne 23/04/03 Pipeline, Wyre Forest Jenny Joy
High Brown Fritillary Argynnis adippe 16/06/03 Eastnor, Malvern Hills Helen Woodman
Dark Green Fritillary Argynnis aglaja 16/06/03 Treverward, Salop Bill Davidson
Silver-washed Fritillary Argynnis paphia 17/07/03 Chaddesley Woods Gordon Forrest
Marsh Fritillary Euphydryas aurinia      
Glanville Fritillary Melitaea cinxia      
Heath Fritillary Melitaea athalia      
Speckled Wood Pararge aegeria 03/04/03 Hawne Colliery Dave White
Wall Lasiommata megera 04/05/03 Knighton, Salop Bill Davidson
Mountain Ringlet Erebia epiphron 25/06/03 Cold Pike, Cumbria Trevor Bucknall
Scotch Argus Erebia aethiops      
Marbled White Melanargia galathea 12/06/03 Dunstall Colin & Helen Dolding
Grayling Hipparchia semele 04/07/03 Snailbeach, Salop Kirsty & Richard Southwell
Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus 20/6/03 Cannock Chase, nr Brockton Richard Southwell &
Lynn Martin
Meadow Brown Maniola jurtina
04/06/03
Charlecote Park Richard Southwell & Phil Pain
Ringlet Aphantopus hyperantus 14/06/03 Droitwich Bypass
and
Ashlawn Cutting, Rugby

Neil & Corinna Gregory
and
Southwell Family

Small Heath Coenonympha pamphilus 04/05/03 Knighton, Salop Bill Davidson
Large Heath Coenonympha tullia 24/6/03 Wem Moss Richard & Jane Southwell
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