#3126 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Bordered Patch

Chlosyne lacinia

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

1. © Daniel Peralta Mateos · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © John Brush · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © upupamartin · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © Mike Plagens · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Nicole · CC BY 4.0
6. © Roger Sosa · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Texas, US:© Kai Joaquin · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 6WRH+G57, Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia:© Daniel Galindo · CC BY 4.0
9. Colorado, US:© kelptaylor · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Cozumel, MX-QR, MX:© Elvis Jimenez · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Chlosyne lacinia , the bordered patch or sunflower patch , is a North and South American butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 35,723iNaturalist 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.
35,723 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Peter Carl Friedrich Geyer in 1837 (189 years ago).