#2985 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Spotted Fritillary
🇳🇱 Tweekleurige parelmoervlinder ·Melitaea didyma
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what is it?
Melitaea didyma , the spotted fritillary or red-band fritillary , 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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 22,254 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1778 (248 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spotted Fritillary
- Nederlands
- Tweekleurige parelmoervlinder
- scientific name
- Melitaea didyma
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 18,027
- sightings worldwide
- 22,254
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1778 by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133295, Wikidata Q1071813, GBIF 8393082, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.