#2959 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Five-spot Burnet

🇳🇱 Vijfvlek-sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena trifolii

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Anne SORBES · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Céline · CC BY 4.0
3. Ouarzazate, Marokko:© Youp van den Heuvel · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Normandie, Yport, Haute-Normandie, FR:© florent_p · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Provinz Burgos, Spanien:© Martin Geiger · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Skikda, DZ:© Larbi Afoutni · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. 62380 Wavrans-sur-l'Aa, France:© Marie Lou Legrand · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 09292 Quintanavides, Burgos, Spain:© Felipe Hidalgo · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Moldes, Valga, Pontevedra, ES:© Antía Figueira y Arturo Ramos · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. São Pedro do Sul, 3660, Portugal:© Nuno Campos · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Zygaena trifolii , the five-spot burnet , is a moth in the family Zygaenidae. It is found from North Africa, through the western Mediterranean, Great Britain and central Europe to Ukraine. It is not found in Scandinavia.

base stats

NL sightings 4iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,067iNaturalist 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

Spotted 4 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
6,067 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1783 (243 years ago).