#2934 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Common Footman

🇳🇱 Plat beertje ·Eilema lurideola

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Gilles San Martin · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © salvatore_infanti · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © koccenka · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © koccenka · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Tache introd, 11010 Introd AO, Italy:© Leonardo Ancillotto · CC BY 4.0
7. Parco Nazionale dello Stelvio, Stelvio, Trentino-Alto Adige, IT:© Maurizio Sighele · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
8. Tilehurst, Reading, UK:© Ross Laugher · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Trentino-Alto Adige, IT:© Andrea Peterlongo · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Tilehurst, Reading, UK:© Ross Laugher · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The common footman ( Manulea lurideola ) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is distributed throughout Europe and east through the Palearctic to Lake Baikal.

base stats

NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,211iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
11,211 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken in 1817 (209 years ago).