#2767 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Common Branded Skipper

🇳🇱 Kommavlinder ·Hesperia comma

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Denis Doucet · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © tapaculo99 · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Camillo De Berardinis · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 3775 Kootwijk, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 3775 Kootwijk, Nederland:© Joey Bom · CC BY 4.0
9. 1796 De Koog, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 9459 TA Balloerveld, Nederland:© Jeroen van der Brugge · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hesperia comma , the silver-spotted skipper , is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae. It is also known as the common branded skipper or Holarctic grass skipper in North America, where the butterfly Epargyreus clarus , a spread-winged skipper, also has the common name of "silver-spotted skipper".

base stats

NL sightings 50iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,279iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).