#2527 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Festoon
🇳🇱 Slakrups ·Apoda limacodes
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Apoda limacodes , the festoon , is a moth of the family Limacodidae. It is found in Europe. The wingspan is 20–30 mm. The moth flies in June and July in Belgium and the Netherlands.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- Spotted 185 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,979 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Festoon
- Nederlands
- Slakrups
- scientific name
- Apoda limacodes
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Limacodidae
- sightings in NL
- 185
- sightings in Europe
- 4,557
- sightings worldwide
- 4,979
- GBIF records in NL
- 22,094
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324132, Wikidata Q1103233, GBIF 5105339, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.