#2584 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Small Emperor Moth

🇳🇱 Nachtpauwoog ·Saturnia pavonia

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Saturnia pavonia , the small emperor moth , is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . Sometimes, the incorrect genus name Pavonia is still used for this species. This moth occurs throughout the Palearctic region and is the only member of its family to be found in the British Isles, where it is usually called simply the emperor moth .

base stats

NL sightings 126iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 9,003iNaturalist 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).