#3031 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Slender Scotch Burnet

🇳🇱 Dubbelvlek-sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena loti

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Marco Bonifacino · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © jkt · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Palamarchuk Yuri · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © bferrero · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © franziskavi · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Ina Siebert · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Vorflutgraben Nord, Marzling, Bayern, Deutschland:© Felix Riegel · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Клуцохор:© Радослава Колева · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Provincia di Verona, Italia:© Eugenio Pighi · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Местонахождение: 42,673448, 26,314111:© Радослава Колева · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zygaena loti , the slender Scotch burnet , is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,103iNaturalist 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.
6,103 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775 (251 years ago).