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#2495 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Latticed Heath

🇳🇱 Klaverspanner ·Chiasmia clathrata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Latticed Heath, photo 1 of 9
1/9 © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The latticed heath ( Chiasmia clathrata ) is a moth of the family Geometridae, belonging to the subfamily Ennominae, placed in the tribe Macariini. The genus was erected by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae .

base stats

  • NL sightings 261iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 27,495iNaturalist 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

  • Spotted 261 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 27,495 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Latticed Heath
Nederlands
Klaverspanner
scientific name
Chiasmia clathrata
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Geometridae
sightings in NL
261
sightings in Europe
25,713
sightings worldwide
27,495
GBIF records in NL
21,854
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

relatives· Geometridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 124095, Wikidata Q25779, GBIF 4525078, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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