#2660 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Orange Footman

🇳🇱 Geel beertje ·Eilema sororcula

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © aga-ma · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © aga-ma · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
7. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Wittia sororcula or Eilema sorcula , the orange footman , is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Europe, Anatolia and further east across the Palearctic to southern Siberia and the Amur basin to China.

base stats

NL sightings 82iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,154iNaturalist 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).