#2992 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Great Banded Grayling

🇳🇱 Witbandzandoog ·Brintesia circe

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © winu · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
4. © Росица Делчева ППМГ Сливен · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
6. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Joachim Wimmer · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Brintesia is a monotypic butterfly genus in the family Nymphalidae and subfamily Satyrinae. Its one species is Brintesia circe , the great banded grayling .

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 15,579iNaturalist 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.
15,579 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).