Yorkshire Status: Local resident.

Blotched Emerald is at its northern limit in Yorkshire, and this has been the case since Porritt's lists. Our records tend to come from areas to the south of York, down to to the east of VC63. It is rare north of York however one was found at Garbutt Wood near Sutton Bank in 2022. A record from Halifax in 2017 was also very unusual, being far from other records. One even turned up at Spurn in 2023 - the first at this site. There has been an increase in the number of records in the last ten years. This species may be hiding in oak woodland in other parts of the county. Numbers are usually small, but some good counts have occurred in recent years for example 11 at Austerfield on 11/6/2018.

Sutton & Beaumont, 1989: There are few records since the last list (YNU, 1970). Yorkshire is the northern boundary of the species (Skinner, 1984). Consequently it is rather thinly spread and very local.

Recorded in 32 (16%) of 200 10k Squares. First Recorded in 1883. Last Recorded in 2023. Additional Stats

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