#2499 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Buff Ermine
🇳🇱 Gele tijger ·Spilosoma lutea
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Carlos Rey Rañó · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Krzysztof Frychel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © winu · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Aah-Yeah · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The buff ermine ( Spilarctia luteum ) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Spilosoma . It is found throughout the temperate belt of the Palearctic region south to northern Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia (excluding Buryatia), Eastern Mongolia, Amur Region, China, Korea and Japan.
base stats
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 243 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 13,037 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Buff Ermine
- Nederlands
- Gele tijger
- scientific name
- Spilosoma lutea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 243
- sightings in Europe
- 10,633
- sightings worldwide
- 13,037
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61855, Wikidata Q1499328, GBIF 1811789, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.