#3021 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Chestnut Heath

🇳🇱 Roodstreephooibeestje ·Coenonympha glycerion

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Baranyi Tamás · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Pavel Vojtek · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © winu · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Хаматов Гадылхан · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Luciano 95 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
8. © Vlad Proklov · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Mintegui · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
10. © Javier Díaz Barrera · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0

what is it?

Coenonympha glycerion , the chestnut heath , is a butterfly species belonging to the family Nymphalidae. It can be found in Eastern Europe and temperate parts of Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 7,840iNaturalist 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.
7,840 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen in 1788 (238 years ago).