#2865 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Birch Mocha

🇳🇱 Berkenoogspanner ·Cyclophora albipunctata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Janet Graham · CC BY 4.0
2. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Wildlife in a Dorset garden. · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Pentti Ketola · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Wildlife in a Dorset garden. · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
6. © Patrick Clement · CC BY 4.0
7. © Richard (Ryszard) · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Patrick Clement · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Cyclophora albipunctata , the birch mocha , is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found in the Palearctic The southern boundary runs westward along the French Atlantic coast and to the British Isles and North of the Alps. In the East, the species range to the Pacific Ocean (Russian Far East). In the Pyrenees, the Massif Central, the Southern Alps, the...

base stats

NL sightings 32iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,817iNaturalist 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).