#3109 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

American Snout

Libytheana carinenta

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe

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

1. © Nick Athanas · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Judy Gallagher · CC BY 4.0
3. © MC Barnhart · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Carlos A S Correia · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Antonio Moreno Talamantes · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Jack Cochran · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Mobbs Farm - Valley, Fitzsimonds Rd, Jericho, VT 05465, USA:© Bernie Paquette · CC BY 4.0
8. Distant Hill Gardens, Walpole, NH, USA:© Michael Nerrie · CC BY 4.0
9. 14050 Dawson Beach Rd, Woodbridge, VA 22191, USA:© Judy Gallagher · CC BY-SA 4.0
10. Will County, IL, USA:© Dave1682 · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Libytheana carinenta also called the American snout butterfly or common snout butterfly is a member of the subfamily Libytheinae in the brush-footed butterfly family, Nymphalidae. This species is found in both North and South America. The larval host plants are Celtis species on which the eggs are laid singly. Massive migrations of this species often attract attention in the Texas and Mexican newspapers.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 42,573iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
42,573 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Pieter Cramer in 1777 (249 years ago).