#2958 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Scarce Tortoiseshell

🇳🇱 Oostelijke Vos ·Nymphalis xanthomelas

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Bogdan V. Kryzhatyuk · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Rue du President Kennedy, Le Petit-Quevilly, Normandie, FR:© estorninoalex · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Neunkirchen District, Austria:© Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Grad Sofiya, BG-SG-ST, BG:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Mytishchinskiy rayon, Moskva, Russia:© Александр Гончаров · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Каширский р-н, Московская обл., Россия:© cossus · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 10105 Vilnius, Lietuva:© Irma Medausa · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Nymphalis xanthomelas , the scarce tortoiseshell , is a species of nymphalid butterfly found in eastern Europe and Asia. This butterfly is also referred as yellow-legged tortoiseshell or large tortoiseshell (however, in Europe, "large tortoiseshell" is usually reserved for Nymphalis polychloros ).

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,972iNaturalist 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

Spotted 4 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
8,972 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1781 (245 years ago).