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Speckled Yellow

🇳🇱 Boterbloempje ·Pseudopanthera macularia

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Speckled Yellow, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Björn Sothmann · CC BY-SA 4.0

what is it?

Pseudopanthera macularia , the speckled yellow , is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula through Western and Central Europe and the British Isles and Russia to the Urals. From Asia Minor it extends East through the rest of the Palearctic to...

base stats

  • NL sightings 30iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 11,577iNaturalist 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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 11,577 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Speckled Yellow
Nederlands
Boterbloempje
scientific name
Pseudopanthera macularia
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Geometridae
sightings in NL
30
sightings in Europe
11,147
sightings worldwide
11,577
GBIF records in NL
1,937
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

relatives· Geometridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 341679, Wikidata Q1303786, GBIF 1954563, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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