#3055 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Chalk Burnet

Zygaena fausta

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Valter Jacinto · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Qgroom · CC BY 4.0
4. navarra:© Enrique Baquero · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Torino, Piemonte, IT:© bferrero · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 72 Eningen unter Achalm, Deutschland:© Karen Andrea Boehme · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Bayern, DE:© Thorsten Hackbarth · CC BY 4.0
8. Torino, Piemonte, IT:© bferrero · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © overkill · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Rognes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, FR:© nsolo · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zygaena fausta is a member of the family Zygaenidae, the day-flying burnet moths. Its bright aposematic colours of red, white and black on the wings indicate to possible predators such as birds that it is foul tasting or poisonous. In flight, the bright red abdomen is revealed, contrasting with the white legs and black head and antennae; the thorax is black and white with an eye spot on each side (see image). There appears to be...

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,385iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
4,385 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).