#3101 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Giant Leopard Moth

Hypercompe scribonia

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

1. © Josh van der Meulen · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Sean Fraser · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Alex · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Cheryl Harleston López Espino · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © Erick Noe Tapia Banda · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © memphianexplorer · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © frannysopranny · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © William Hull · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © aforrence · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. © Cassie Kay · CC BY-ND 4.0

what is it?

The giant leopard moth or eyed tiger moth ( Hypercompe scribonia ) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is distributed throughout the Americas from southern Ontario, and southern and eastern United States through New England, Mexico and down to Panama. The obsolete name Ecpantheria scribonia is still occasionally encountered.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 51,836iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
51,836 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Caspar Stoll in 1790 (236 years ago).