#2553 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Dotted Footman
🇳🇱 Muisbeertje ·Pelosia muscerda
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands
📍 De Wieden, Blokzijl, Overijssel, NL
📍 Katlijk, Nederland
📍 Het Katlijker Schar (Ketliker Skar). (Natuurgebied van It Fryske Gea)., Schoterlandseweg 26, 8455 JG Katlijk, Nederland
📍 Wooldse Veen, Winterswijk Woold, Gelderland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Schiermonnikoog, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. De Wieden, Blokzijl, Overijssel, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Katlijk, Nederland:© Durk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Het Katlijker Schar (Ketliker Skar). (Natuurgebied van It Fryske Gea)., Schoterlandseweg 26, 8455 JG Katlijk, Nederland:© Durk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Wooldse Veen, Winterswijk Woold, Gelderland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Pelosia muscerda , the dotted footman , is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.
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 157 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,754 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dotted Footman
- Nederlands
- Muisbeertje
- scientific name
- Pelosia muscerda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 157
- sightings in Europe
- 2,008
- sightings worldwide
- 2,754
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,701
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324681, Wikidata Q217091, GBIF 5117400, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.