59.014 .... B&F 1601
Pearl-bordered Fritillary Boloria euphrosyne (Linnaeus, 1758) 
The Pearl-bordered Fritillary has been extinct in Nottinghamshire since the early 1980's, being recorded for the last time in the county from Cotgrave Forest in 1981. There is an earlier Cotgrave Forest record from 1978 (Radford, J.T.), but as there appears to be no other county records listed anywhere between 1934 and 1978, it is impossible to say whether it was present at Cotgrave Forest during those intervening years, or they were the result of an attempted introduction of captive-bred stock.

Carr listed a number of historical records in his book 'The Invertebrate Fauna of Nottinghamshire. Nottingham: J.& H. Bell Ltd (1916)'  which suggests that the Pearl-bordered Fritillary was never a common and widespread butterfly in Nottinghamshire, rather it was restricted to woodlands lying on generally dry, sandy soils north of Newark, near Ravenshead and in the Clumber and Sherwood Forest areas.
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Early stages                            
3rd-instar larva on Dog Violet Viola canina, photographed August 2023.
 
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Post-overwintering larva (4th-instar) on Dog Violet Viola canina, photographed March 2024.
 
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Final-instar larva, photographed early April 2024
 
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Nottinghamshire (VC56) distribution of Pearl-bordered Fritillary    
 
 
 
 
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Updated April 2024

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