#2704 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Mother Shipton

🇳🇱 Mi-vlinder ·Callistege mi

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Federico Salvini · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Bruno Durand · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Cordula Bernert · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Simon Tonge · CC0
6. © Harukano · CC0
7. Loon op Zand, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Aardbeienvlak, IJmuiden, Noord-Holland, NL:© maimarloes · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Oisterwijk, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
10. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Callistege mi , the Mother Shipton moth , is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was classified by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759, and is also known under the name of Euclidia mi . In Finnish it is known as Piirtoyökkönen and in German as Scheck-Tageule .

base stats

NL sightings 64iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,049iNaturalist 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).