#2935 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Crimson-speckled Flunkey
🇳🇱 Prachtbeer ·Utetheisa pulchella
📍 El Atteuf, Algérie
📍 Krauseville AH, Pretoria, South Africa
📍 4292 Dobri Dol, Bulgaria
📍 Colchester, Gqeberha, South Africa
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jaunne-Marelize Van Tonder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Frank-Roland Fließ · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © David Marquina Reyes · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. El Atteuf, Algérie:© CHEDAD Abdelwahab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Krauseville AH, Pretoria, South Africa:© Jaunne-Marelize Van Tonder · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 4292 Dobri Dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Colchester, Gqeberha, South Africa:© Marie Delport · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Utetheisa pulchella , common name crimson-speckled flunkey or crimson-speckled moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae.
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 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 10,869 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Crimson-speckled Flunkey
- Nederlands
- Prachtbeer
- scientific name
- Utetheisa pulchella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 9
- sightings in Europe
- 4,855
- sightings worldwide
- 10,869
- GBIF records in NL
- 583
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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#2431 📷 10Straw Dot
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👀 524 in NL
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👀 523 in NL
#2450 📷 7Garden Tiger
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 201279, Wikidata Q218449, GBIF 1803163, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.