#3000 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Portland Ribbon Wave

🇳🇱 Bandstipspanner ·Idaea degeneraria

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
2. © purperlibel · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © romuloarrais · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © djhiker · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Fernando de Juana · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Provincia di Vicenza, Italia:© Marco Vicariotto · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Domaszék, 6781 Hungary:© Lili Lajtár · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Via per Schignano, Argegno, Lombardy, IT:© Mike King · CC BY 4.0
9. SS 124 per Floridia c/da Frescura, 96100 Siracusa SR, Italy:© Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Jennersdorf, Österreich:© lastovka · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Idaea degeneraria , the Portland ribbon wave , is a moth of the family Geometridae....

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,695iNaturalist 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.
12,695 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1799 (227 years ago).