Pictured: small heath, Coenonympha pamphilus
Notes from Jenyns: Common thro’ out the County on heaths, & open meadows.
200-year trend in Cambridgeshire: Decline.
Modern records
This species is still common in Cambridgeshire, but it has undergone a decline and is now more localised in its distribution. Many colonies have been lost due to agricultural intensification removing their unimproved grassland habitat.
National records map
Small heath national records map: https://species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMSYS0000519083
