The Queen of Spain fritillary is a rare and intermittent migrant to the UK. In occasional years larger numbers are recorded, but never more than a few tens of individuals. Although Jenyns’ notes suggest that at one time it may have been slightly more abundant in Cambridgeshire, ‘it was not very rare in the days of Petiver’, most sightings in the county are for single specimens. It was likely never common and has since continued to be a sporadic migrant.