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#3002 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

High Brown Fritillary

🇳🇱 Adippevlinder ·Argynnis adippe

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL
High Brown Fritillary, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The high brown fritillary ( Fabriciana adippe ) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family, native from Europe across mainland Asia to Japan.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 12,427iNaturalist 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

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 12,427 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
High Brown Fritillary
Nederlands
Adippevlinder
scientific name
Argynnis adippe
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Nymphalidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings in Europe
9,870
sightings worldwide
12,427
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Nymphalidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 70105, Wikidata Q119699, GBIF 4535434, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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