Mottled beauty: Where It Lives, Map & Facts

Mottled beauty Alcis repandata

Where the mottled beauty lives – recorded in 15 countries, with quick facts from Wikidata and an introduction from Wikipedia.

Recorded in (GBIF)Representative wild record

Pin and shaded countries are approximate. The pin is a representative wild sighting (a central record among 72,724 open-licence GBIF records), not an official range. Method · Records on GBIF · See butterflies & moths on the world map

Scientific name	Alcis repandata
Group	Butterflies & moths
Found in	15 countries
Continents	Europe
Class	Insect
Order	Lepidoptera
Family	Geometridae

Where does the mottled beauty live?

Open-licence (CC0 / CC BY) wild records published on GBIF place the mottled beauty in 15 countries and territories across Europe.

Countries with at least a handful of records (a minimum share of the species’ records, to leave out vagrants and escapes). Records with coordinates only; captive and fossil records excluded.

What kind of animal is the mottled beauty?

The mottled beauty (Alcis repandata) is an insect in the order Lepidoptera and the family Geometridae, genus Alcis. (Taxonomy from Wikidata.)

About the mottled beauty

The mottled beauty (Alcis repandata) is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

Text in “About” is quoted from the Wikipedia article Mottled beauty (revision 1379964577), licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: lead section excerpted verbatim, formatting removed. Quick facts, taxonomy and status: Wikidata Q46093 (CC0). Countries and pin: GBIF.org occurrence records (CC0 / CC BY 4.0).