#2438 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Small Engrailed

🇳🇱 Gewone spikkelspanner ·Ectropis crepuscularia

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The engrailed and small engrailed ( Ectropis crepuscularia ) are moths of the family Geometridae found from the British Isles through Central and Eastern Europe to the Russian Far East and Kazakhstan. The western Mediterranean and Asia Minor and the Caucasus represent the southern limit of the distribution (with the Balkan countries). In the north, the distribution area ends at the Arctic circle. It also occurs in North America. Debate exists as to whether they make up one...

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NL sightings 486iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 27,853iNaturalist 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).