#3042 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

False Heath Fritillary

🇳🇱 Woudparelmoervlinder ·Melitaea diamina

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0
2. © Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Lukas Thiess · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Anne Sorbes · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © François-Xavier Taxil · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Christoph Moning · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Melitaea diamina , the false heath fritillary , is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,571iNaturalist 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.
5,571 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Heinrich Gottlob Lang in 1789 (237 years ago).