#2917 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Tawny Wave

🇳🇱 Purperen stipspanner ·Scopula rubiginata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Scopula rubiginata , the tawny wave , is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula up to the Ural. In the North its range extends to Denmark and Southern Sweden and Finland. It is not present in most of the southern part of the Iberian Peninsula (with the exception of Gibraltar), Sicily and the southern Greek islands. In Morocco it is found in the Atlas mountains. Furthermore, it is also present in...

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NL sightings 22iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,457iNaturalist 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).