#3052 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Red-underwing Skipper

🇳🇱 Kalkgraslanddikkopje ·Spialia sertorius

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Giuseppe Cagnetta · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Anxos Romeo Barreiro · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. St. Sebastian, Österreich:© chris_w · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Pelouses Calcaires, Lorry-Mardigny, 57420, France:© Sora · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 54460 Aingeray, France:© Maxime Fousse · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Provincia di Mantova, Italia:© Sönke Hardersen · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Huesca, ES-AR, ES:© rbeunen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

Spialia sertorius , the Red-underwing Skipper , is a butterfly of the family Hesperiidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,479iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
4,479 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg in 1804 (222 years ago).