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title: "Gele tijger"
description: "Spilosoma lutea — Insecten en spinnen. The buff ermine (Spilarctia luteum) is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/buff-ermine
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Gele tijger

> Spilosoma lutea — Insecten en spinnen. The buff ermine (Spilarctia luteum) is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Spilosoma lutea*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 12939
- Wikidata: [Q1499328](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1499328)
- iNaturalist taxon: [61855](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/61855)

## Names

- en: Buff Ermine
- de: Gelber Fleckleibbär
- fr: Écaille Lièvre
- nl: Gele tijger

## Countries with the most observations

GB (5120), RU (1010), ES (585), FR (566), AT (486), DE (447), PT (349), DK (267), CH (263), NL (243), PL (175), FI (162)

## Summary

The buff ermine (Spilarctia luteum) is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is sometimes placed in the genus Spilosoma. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found throughout the temperate belt of the Palearctic region south to northern Turkey, Georgia, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia (excluding Buryatia), eastern Mongolia, Amur Region, China, Korea and Japan.
The wings of this species are buffish yellow (the males tend to be more yellow than the females) and are typically marked with a diagonal row of dark spots on the forewing and a few other scattered spots on both forewings and…

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

## Photo

![Gele tijger](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/buff-ermine/medium.jpg)

Photo: goldfjnch · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/82254392

## Machine access

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