#3116 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Pale Beauty
Campaea perlata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Dick · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Bill Keim · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Dick · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © crgillette · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Stephanie Schmidt · CC BY-NC 4.0
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- 7. © Chris Wood · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Matt Goff · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © mothvet · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Jim des Rivieres · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Campaea perlata , the pale beauty , is a species of moth in the family Geometridae. The average wingspan is about 28–51 mm, and the female tends to be much larger than the male.
base stats
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.
- 39,265 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Achille Guenée in 1858 (168 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pale Beauty
- scientific name
- Campaea perlata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 39,265
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1858 by Achille Guenée
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Camptogramma bilineata
👀 893 in NL
#2409 📷 10Small Dusty Wave
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Idaea seriata
👀 889 in NL
#2412 📷 10Willow Beauty
🇳🇱 Schaduwspikkelspanner
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
👀 725 in NL
#2418 📷 10Double-striped Pug
🇳🇱 Zwartkamdwergspanner
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
👀 668 in NL
#2435 📷 8Single-dotted Wave
🇳🇱 Vlekstipspanner
Idaea dimidiata
👀 509 in NL
#2438 📷 10Small Engrailed
🇳🇱 Gewone spikkelspanner
Ectropis crepuscularia
👀 486 in NL
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👀 435 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 81681, Wikidata Q5027725, GBIF 1978751, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.