#2600 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Lime-speck Pug

🇳🇱 Zwartvlekdwergspanner ·Eupithecia centaureata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Kjeld Brem · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
3. © Tina Ellegaard Poulsen · CC BY 4.0
4. © Kjeld Brem · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Kjeld Brem · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
6. Leiderdorp, Nederland:© jaap_engberts · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
9. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 4307 Oosterland, Netherlands:© Jan Meerman · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The lime-speck pug ( Eupithecia centaureata ) is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is a common species throughout the Palearctic region (where it is found in Europe, Central Asia, Mongolia, southern Siberia, eastern China (Guangdong) and Taiwan), the Near East and North Africa.

base stats

NL sightings 117iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,318iNaturalist 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).