#2886 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Buff Footman
🇳🇱 Naaldboombeertje ·Eilema depressa
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © adinie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michele Mancini · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Markus Krieger · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The buff footman ( Katha depressa or Katha deplana ) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from western Europe east through the Palearctic (northern Asia Minor, Crimea, Abkhazia, Transcaucasia, southern Siberia, Middle Amur, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kunashir, Zhejiang) to Korea and Japan.
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 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,334 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1787 (239 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Buff Footman
- Nederlands
- Naaldboombeertje
- scientific name
- Eilema depressa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 6,163
- sightings worldwide
- 8,334
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1787 by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 125266, Wikidata Q218268, GBIF 5116850, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.