#2640 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Chevron Moth

🇳🇱 Oranje agaatspanner ·Eulithis testata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Erika Mitchell · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Sami Törnblom · CC BY 4.0
3. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Klazienaveen, Nederland:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Eulithis testata , the chevron , is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in both the Palearctic and the Nearctic ecozones. In Eurasia it ranges from Great Britain and Scandinavia, south to the Alps, east through Russia and the Russian Far East to Japan. In North America, it is found from Newfoundland to Vancouver Island and Alaska, south in the east to about New Jersey and in the west to Colorado.

base stats

NL sightings 90iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 1,858iNaturalist 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).