#2670 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Speckled Footman
🇳🇱 Grasbeertje ·Coscinia cribraria
📍 Terschelling, Midsland, Friesland, NL
📍 Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
📍 Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands
📍 9166 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
📍 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © @c.fenoll · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. Terschelling, Midsland, Friesland, NL:© petehaag · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Bas Engels · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 9. 9166 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Coscinia cribraria ( speckled footman ) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Europe except the most northern parts; also in north-western Africa, Kazakhstan, Siberia, Mongolia, north-western and north-eastern China.
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
- Spotted 78 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,454 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Speckled Footman
- Nederlands
- Grasbeertje
- scientific name
- Coscinia cribraria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 78
- sightings in Europe
- 1,788
- sightings worldwide
- 2,454
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,262
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 130874, Wikidata Q237571, GBIF 5117189, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
