#2966 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Dusky Thorn

🇳🇱 Essenspanner ·Ennomos fuscantaria

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © mazeson · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Rasmus Allesoee · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © motheaten · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andreas Manz · CC0
7. 4292 Dobri dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
8. Běstvina 21, 538 45 Běstvina, Česko:© Petr Šíma · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 4292 Dobri Dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
10. Gladsaxe Municipality, Hovedstaden, Denmark:© Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Ennomos fuscantaria , the dusky thorn (choth), is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species can be found in the western part of the Palearctic ecozone in western Europe and from central Scandinavia its range extends to the northern Mediterranean and east to Russia.

base stats

NL sightings 2iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,504iNaturalist 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).