Scientific Names of Birds, Animals and Invertebrates Listed in the Text
Common name Scientific name
Mammals Badger Meles meles Common Pipistrelle Pipistrellus pipistrellus Daubenton’s Bat Myotis daubentonii Field Vole Microtus agrestis Fox Vulpes vulpes Noctule Nyctalus noctula Otter Lutra lutra Rabbit Oryctolagus cuniculus
Birds Chough Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Hoopoe Upupa epops Little Plover Charadrius dubius Ringed Plover Charadrius hiaticula
Reptiles and amphibians Common Toad Bufo bufo Slow Worm Anguis fragilis
Turtles Loggerhead Turtle Caretta caretta
Invertebrates Molluscs (slugs & snails) Kerry Slug Geomalacus maculosus Quimper Snail Elona quimperiana
Orthoptera (Grasshoppers & Crickets) Grey Bush-cricket Platycleis albopunctata Long-winged Conehead Conocephalus discolor
Dictyoptera (Cockroaches) Lesser Cockroach Ectobius panzeri
Common name Scientific name
Hemiptera (Bugs) Spurge Bug Dicranocephalus agilis Thyme Lacebug Lasiacantha capucina
Lepidoptera (Butterflies & Moths) African Armyworm Spodoptera exempta Almond Moth Ephestia cautella Archer’s Dart Agrotis vestigialis Beaded Chestnut Agrochola lychnidis Beautiful Gothic Leucochlaena oditis Bird’s Wing Dypterygia scabriuscula Blair’s Shoulder-knot Lithophane leautieri Blue Gray Satyr Euptychia libye Brown Hairstreak Thecla betulae Brown-line Bright-eye Mythimna conigera Buff-tip Phalera bucephala Cinnabar Tyria jacobaeae Clouded Yellow Colias croceus Common Blue Polyommatus icarus Common Rustic Mesapamea secalis Double Line Mythimna turca Dusky Sallow Eremobia ochroleuca European Grapevine Moth Lobesia botrana Feathered Brindle Aporophyla australis Feathered Ranunculus Polymixis lichenea Fisher’s Estuarine Moth Gortyna borellii lunata Garden Tiger Arctia caja Gatekeeper Pyronia tithonus Glaucous Shears Papestra biren Grass Eggar Lasiocampa trifolii Grayling Hipparchia semele Great Prominent Peridea anceps Grey Mountain Carpet Entephria caesiata Gypsy Moth Lymantria dispar High Brown Fritillary Argynnis adippe Kentish Glory Endromis versicolora Large Blue Maculinea arion Marbled Minor Oligia strigilis Marbled White Melanargia galathea