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title: "White Ermine"
description: "Spilosoma lubricipeda — Insetti e ragni. Spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/white-ermine
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# White Ermine

> Spilosoma lubricipeda — Insetti e ragni. Spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Spilosoma lubricipeda*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 23029
- Wikidata: [Q906595](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q906595)
- iNaturalist taxon: [81653](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81653)

## Names

- en: White Ermine
- de: Breitflügeliger Fleckleibbär
- es: Armiño Blanco
- fr: Écaille tigrée
- nl: Witte tijger
- pl: Szewnica miętówka

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4651), FR (2095), DE (1555), RU (1433), AT (1007), DK (652), ES (626), NL (523), PL (477), CH (453), IT (411), FI (363)

## Summary

Spilosoma lubricipeda, the white ermine, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found throughout the temperate belt of Eurasia from Europe through Kazakhstan and southern Siberia to Amur Region,India, China, Korea and Japan. In China several sibling species occur.
The wingspan is 34–48 mm. Wing pattern is very variable, from entirely white wings to strongly covered with black dots. Hindwings often with one or several black dots (rarely without any black dot). Antennae branches long (much longer than in similar Spilosoma urticae), 3–5 times longer than the antenna stem diameter.

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

## Photo

![White Ermine](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/white-ermine/medium.jpg)

Photo: cumulonimbus · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/162953178

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/white-ermine?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).