#2957 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Cream-spot Tiger

🇳🇱 Roomvlek ·Arctia villica

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Sylvain Montagner · CC BY 4.0
3. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © stefanodirektor · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Amadej Trnkoczy · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © dromensis · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
9. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Epicallia villica , the cream-spot tiger , is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species is distributed from the Iberian Peninsula across western and southern Europe, Anatolia, western and northern Iran, West Siberia, Southwest Asia and North Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 13,989iNaturalist 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).