#2513 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Silver-washed Fritillary

🇳🇱 Keizersmantel ·Argynnis paphia

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © frahome · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Mikael Nyman · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © lucianoarp · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Licheng Shih · CC BY 4.0
5. Zuid-kennemerland, NL-NH-VL, NL-NH, NL:© Annika Tiane Vermaat · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Wassenaar, Netherlands:© dmblokz · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Wassenaar, Nederland:© Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
8. Zuid-kennemerland, NL-NH-VL, NL-NH, NL:© Annika Tiane Vermaat · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Amsterdamse Waterleidingduinen, Vogelenzang, Noord-Holland, NL:© Floris · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Groesbeek, Nederland:© Herman Berteler · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The silver-washed fritillary ( Argynnis paphia ) is a common and variable butterfly found over much of the Palaearctic ecozone – Algeria, Europe, temperate Asia and Japan.

base stats

NL sightings 207iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 72,398iNaturalist 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).