#3066 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

European Beak

🇳🇱 Snuitvlinder ·Libythea celtis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © riccardomissagia · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © ALPEREN YAYLA · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Felix Puff · CC0
5. © Anton Gjeldum · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Turia Polana, Resort Voevodyno, Perechyns'kyi, UA-ZK, UA:© Serhiy Popoff · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Kalksburg, Wien, Österreich:© cpu · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Κεντρική Μακεδονία, Ελλάδα:© Kostas Zontanos · CC BY 4.0
9. Monte Sterparo, 00019 Tivoli RM, Italia:© Beatrice Melone · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Simmering, Wien, Österreich:© chris_w · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Libythea celtis , the European beak or nettle-tree butterfly , is a butterfly of the Libytheinae group of the brush-footed butterflies family.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,599iNaturalist 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.
3,599 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting in 1782 (244 years ago).