#2469 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Essex Skipper
🇳🇱 Zwartsprietdikkopje ·Thymelicus lineola
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands
📍 Texel, Oosterend, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 9976 Lauwersoog, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © bob15noble · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Stephen B. Brown · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Ryan Grow · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Petra Urbanek · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Александр Корепанов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © yixianshuiesuan · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9261 Eastermar, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Texel, Oosterend, Noord-Holland, NL:© Leonard Rüdenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 9976 Lauwersoog, Niederlande:© sachensucher · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Essex skipper ( Thymelicus lineola ) is a butterfly in family Hesperiidae. In North America, it is known as the European skipper .
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 342 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 41,299 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1808 (218 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Essex Skipper
- Nederlands
- Zwartsprietdikkopje
- scientific name
- Thymelicus lineola
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Hesperiidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 342
- sightings in Europe
- 11,660
- sightings worldwide
- 41,299
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1808 by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Hesperiidae
#2410 📷 7Large Skipper
🇳🇱 Groot dikkopje
Ochlodes sylvanus
LC 👀 830 in NL
#2666 📷 10Large Chequered Skipper
🇳🇱 Spiegeldikkopje
Heteropterus morpheus
LC 👀 79 in NL
#2667 📷 10Chequered Skipper
🇳🇱 Bont dikkopje
Carterocephalus palaemon
LC 👀 78 in NL
#2679 📷 7Small Skipper
🇳🇱 Geelsprietdikkopje
Thymelicus sylvestris
LC 👀 73 in NL
#2752 📷 8Mallow Skipper
🇳🇱 Kaasjeskruiddikkopje
Carcharodus alceae
👀 53 in NL
#2767 📷 10Common Branded Skipper
🇳🇱 Kommavlinder
Hesperia comma
LC 👀 50 in NL
#2797 📷 8Grizzled Skipper
🇳🇱 Aardbeivlinder
Pyrgus malvae
LC 👀 44 in NL
#2799 📷 10Dingy Skipper
🇳🇱 Bruin Dikkopje
Erynnis tages
LC 👀 43 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 58484, Wikidata Q778932, GBIF 1944020, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.