#3018 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Transalpine burnet moth

🇳🇱 Zuidelijke sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena transalpina

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
2. © gailhampshire · CC BY 4.0
3. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
4. © Bruno Durand · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 36076 Recoaro Mille VI, Italia:© jessy_94 · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 87026 Mormanno CS, Italia:© Gabriele Pradelli · CC BY 4.0
7. Provincia di Trento, Italia:© Gabriele Franzini · CC BY 4.0
8. 47330 Cavarc, France:© Julien L. · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
9. Provincia di Varese, Italia:© Mirko Tomasi · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 82467 Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Deutschland:© asegerer · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zygaena transalpina is a moth of the family Zygaenidae.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,388iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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.
8,388 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1780 (246 years ago).