#2801 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Bordered Beauty
🇳🇱 Puntige zoomspanner ·Epione repandaria
📍 Utrecht, NL-UT, NL
📍 7261 KS Ruurlo, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
📍 Voorschoten, Nederland
📍 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 3. Utrecht, NL-UT, NL:© phpetra · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. 7261 KS Ruurlo, Nederland:© Benno te Linde · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 6. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Voorschoten, Nederland:© Rob Westerduijn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Epione repandaria , the bordered beauty , is a moth of the family Geometridae.
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 43 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,013 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bordered Beauty
- Nederlands
- Puntige zoomspanner
- scientific name
- Epione repandaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 43
- sightings in Europe
- 1,825
- sightings worldwide
- 2,013
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,027
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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#2408 📷 7Yellow Shell Moth
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👀 893 in NL
#2409 📷 10Small Dusty Wave
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👀 889 in NL
#2412 📷 10Willow Beauty
🇳🇱 Schaduwspikkelspanner
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
👀 725 in NL
#2418 📷 10Double-striped Pug
🇳🇱 Zwartkamdwergspanner
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
👀 668 in NL
#2435 📷 8Single-dotted Wave
🇳🇱 Vlekstipspanner
Idaea dimidiata
👀 509 in NL
#2438 📷 10Small Engrailed
🇳🇱 Gewone spikkelspanner
Ectropis crepuscularia
👀 486 in NL
#2444 📷 10Brimstone Moth
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👀 435 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324579, Wikidata Q1306026, GBIF 1975546, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.