#2399 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Map

🇳🇱 Landkaartje ·Araschnia levana

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The map ( Araschnia levana ) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. It is common throughout the lowlands of central and eastern Europe, and is expanding its range in western Europe. A. levana was found in northern Scandinavia on May 30, 1973, in south-eastern Finland, in Lauritsala, by a young lepidopterist, Mr Jouko E. Hokka. The specimen was the first known A. levana in northern Europe, excluding Denmark.

base stats

NL sightings 1,417iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,703iNaturalist observations

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 1,417 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #15 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
41,703 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).