#2568 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Pale Oak Beauty
🇳🇱 Ringspikkelspanner ·Hypomecis punctinalis
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Jean-Paul COAT · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 5. © Riccardo Molajoli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Vladimir Bryukhov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Lmbuga Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. © Pierre Bornand · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Hypomecis punctinalis , the pale oak beauty , is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species can be found in Central and South Europe, Asia Minor, Transcaucasia, Russia, Russian Far East, Japan, Korea, Ussuri, West China.
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 146 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 14,411 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Pale Oak Beauty
- Nederlands
- Ringspikkelspanner
- scientific name
- Hypomecis punctinalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 146
- sightings in Europe
- 10,518
- sightings worldwide
- 14,411
- GBIF records in NL
- 28,295
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Geometridae
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👀 977 in NL
#2408 📷 7Yellow Shell Moth
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Camptogramma bilineata
👀 893 in NL
#2409 📷 10Small Dusty Wave
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Idaea seriata
👀 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 320063, Wikidata Q46153, GBIF 4524638, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.