#2667 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Chequered Skipper

🇳🇱 Bont dikkopje ·Carterocephalus palaemon

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Kutushev Radik · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © zugvogel · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Boxtel, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Oisterwijk, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Goirle, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Goirle, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Goirle, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Goirle, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The chequered skipper (Carterocephalus palaemon) , not to be confused with the large chequered skipper, is a small woodland butterfly in the family Hesperiidae. This butterfly can live in grasslands. The upperside of the butterfly is brown with orange spots and on its underside the chequered skipper is orange with brown spots. Chequered skippers are found throughout the United Kingdom and other European countries, but seen locally in Japan, Canada, and the United States. In North America...

base stats

NL sightings 78iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,258iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).