---
title: "Roomvlek"
description: "Arctia villica — Insecten en spinnen. Arctia villica, the cream-spot tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/cream-spot-tiger
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Roomvlek

> Arctia villica — Insecten en spinnen. Arctia villica, the cream-spot tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Arctia villica*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 13883
- Wikidata: [Q1314980](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1314980)
- iNaturalist taxon: [336697](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/336697)

## Names

- en: Cream-spot Tiger
- de: Schwarzer Bär
- es: Polilla Tigre con Manchas de Crema
- fr: Écaille fermière
- nl: Roomvlek
- pl: Niedźwiedziówka włodarka

## Countries with the most observations

FR (3854), IT (2830), ES (904), RU (747), GB (572), GR (571), BG (435), HR (427), UA (324), HU (309), AT (256), PT (184)

## Summary

Arctia villica, the cream-spot tiger, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed from the Iberian Peninsula, Anatolia, western and northern Iran, western Siberia, southwestern Asia and North Africa.
This species, along with the others of the genus Epicallia, was moved to Arctia as a result of phylogenetic research published by Rönkä et al. in 2016.

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

## Photo

![Roomvlek](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cream-spot-tiger/medium.jpg)

Photo: Beppe · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/24934129

## Machine access

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