There are no confirmed records of this butterfly for Nottinghamshire,
although it must be considered likely that captive releases have been carried out, a
number of times over the past few years.
Steve Mathers, in his 2024 publication 'The Status and Recorded
History of Nottinghamshire's Butterflies (1850-2023) Version 1',
describes that "there was a colony in the mid-19th Century at Morton
Carrs near Gainsborough, on the eastern bank of the River Trent
(Duddington & Johnson 1983). As the river is only about 100m wide, with
the centre-line forming the county boundary, and with similar habitats
occurring on both banks, it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that
this species did, at the time, also occur in places on the Notts banks". |
