#2790 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Glanville Fritillary
🇳🇱 Veldparelmoervlinder ·Melitaea cinxia
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Alankomaat
📍 Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Netherlands
📍 Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Nederland
📍 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Sven Damerow · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 4. © Thomas Bresson · CC BY 4.0
- 5. Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Alankomaat:© Matti Brandon · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Netherlands:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Sint Pieter, Maastricht, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
The Glanville fritillary ( Melitaea cinxia ) is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.
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 45 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 16,376 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Glanville Fritillary
- Nederlands
- Veldparelmoervlinder
- scientific name
- Melitaea cinxia
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- sightings in NL
- 45
- sightings in Europe
- 13,727
- sightings worldwide
- 16,376
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,146
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Nymphalidae
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LC 👀 4.7k in NL
#2386 📷 9Speckled Wood
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👀 4.3k in NL
#2387 📷 10European Peacock Butterfly
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Aglais io
👀 3.8k in NL
#2392 📷 10European Comma
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👀 2k in NL
#2395 📷 10Meadow Brown
🇳🇱 Bruin zandoogje
Maniola jurtina
👀 1.7k in NL
#2397 📷 9Painted Lady
🇳🇱 Distelvlinder
Vanessa cardui
LC 👀 1.6k in NL
#2399 📷 9Map
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👀 1.4k in NL
#2402 📷 9Small Tortoiseshell
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👀 1.2k in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57495, Wikidata Q938020, GBIF 8168644, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.