#3063 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

False Ilex Hairstreak

🇳🇱 Spaanse eikenpage ·Satyrium esculi

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Urs Taeger · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
2. © Benoit NABHOLZ · CC BY-SA 4.0
3. © savo · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. 83210 Solliès-Toucas, France:© Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Bragança, 5300, Portugal:© AnaGui · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 30760 Le Garn, France:© Yves Bas · CC BY 4.0
7. Tiz'N'Test_2090m, Al Haouz, Morocco:© desertnaturalist · CC BY 4.0
8. Hyères, France:© Bernard Noguès · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 83340 Le Cannet-des-Maures, France:© Eva Owczarek · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Villanueva de Oscos, Asturias, España:© carlosmurias · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Satyrium esculi , the false ilex hairstreak , is a butterfly in the family Lycaenidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,005iNaturalist 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

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,005 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1804 (222 years ago).