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title: "Speckled Yellow"
description: "Pseudopanthera macularia — Insectos y arañas. Pseudopanthera macularia, the speckled yellow, is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/speckled-yellow
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Speckled Yellow

> Pseudopanthera macularia — Insectos y arañas. Pseudopanthera macularia, the speckled yellow,  is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Pseudopanthera macularia*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 11530
- Wikidata: [Q1303786](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1303786)
- iNaturalist taxon: [341679](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/341679)

## Names

- en: Speckled Yellow
- de: Pantherspanner
- fr: Panthère
- nl: Boterbloempje

## Countries with the most observations

DE (1778), FR (1765), AT (1362), IT (1299), RU (728), GB (714), CH (343), HU (334), CZ (311), ES (274), UA (257), RO (252)

## Summary

Pseudopanthera macularia, the speckled yellow,  is a moth of the family Geometridae. It is found throughout Europe, from the Iberian Peninsula through Western and Central Europe and the British Isles and Russia to the Urals. Its range extends North to South Fennoscandia, in the South from the Western Mediterranean islands and Italy and the Balkan Peninsula to the Black Sea region and the Caucasus. From Asia Minor it extends East through the rest of the Palearctic to Transbaikal.

 
The wingspan is 23–28 mm."Easily known by having the lines or bands altogether broken up into large irregular spots. Underside the same…

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudopanthera_macularia

## Photo

![Speckled Yellow](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/speckled-yellow/medium.jpg)

Photo: Harukano · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/129282627

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/speckled-yellow?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).