#3026 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Southern Brown Argus

🇳🇱 Moors bruin blauwtje ·Aricia cramera

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Fernando de Juana · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Chris Moody · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Sevilla, España:© Mario Ruiz · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 7300 Portalegre, Portugal:© mtfoliveira · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Bragança, 5300, Portugal:© zebedeugalinha · CC BY 4.0
7. Las Palmas, Islas Canarias, Spain:© Michael Knapp · CC BY 4.0
8. El Salvador, Madrid, España:© Sara Navarro · CC BY 4.0
9. Calle de Cáceres, Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, ES:© @c.fenoll · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Pousada Serra da Estrela, 6200-073 Covilhã, Portugal:© MLT33 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Aricia cramera , the southern brown argus , is a butterfly of the Lycaenidae family. It is a butterfly of Southern Europe and North Africa and can be found from Morocco and Tunisia up to Spain and Portugal, on Mediterranean islands including Menorca and on the Canary Islands.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,944iNaturalist 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.
6,944 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz in 1821 (205 years ago).