#2931 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Mourning Cloak
🇳🇱 Rouwmantel ·Nymphalis antiopa
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Susan Elliott · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Faby Galleta · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Emily Hjalmarson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © raviner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Dean Morley · CC BY-ND 4.0
- 7. © DK in TO · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 8. © Bryan Pfeiffer · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Alan Liang · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Nymphalis antiopa , known as the mourning cloak in North America and the Camberwell beauty in Britain, is a large butterfly native to Eurasia and North America.
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 11 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 97,760 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Mourning Cloak
- Nederlands
- Rouwmantel
- scientific name
- Nymphalis antiopa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nymphalidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 11
- sightings in Europe
- 12,094
- sightings worldwide
- 97,760
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,501
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Nymphalidae
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#2387 📷 10European Peacock Butterfly
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#2395 📷 10Meadow Brown
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#2397 📷 9Painted Lady
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#2399 📷 9Map
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56832, Wikidata Q503989, GBIF 5130682, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.