#2571 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Cream-bordered Green Pea
🇳🇱 Kleine groenuil ·Earias clorana
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Amsterdam, Oude Haagseweg
📍 Amsterdam, Oude Haagseweg
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © nutmeg66 · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Tiziana Dinolfo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Amsterdam, Oude Haagseweg:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Amsterdam, Oude Haagseweg:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
The cream-bordered green pea ( Earias clorana ) is a moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in most of Europe eastwards to the Urals and Western Siberia.
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 142 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,082 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Cream-bordered Green Pea
- Nederlands
- Kleine groenuil
- scientific name
- Earias clorana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nolidae
- sightings in NL
- 142
- sightings in Europe
- 1,685
- sightings worldwide
- 2,082
- GBIF records in NL
- 13,550
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Nolidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 357834, Wikidata Q2247268, GBIF 1803073, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.