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title: "Variabele spikkelspanner"
description: "Alcis repandata — Insecten en spinnen. The mottled beauty (Alcis repandata) is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/mottled-beauty
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Variabele spikkelspanner

> Alcis repandata — Insecten en spinnen. The mottled beauty (Alcis repandata) is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Alcis repandata*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: `forest` (Bos)
- iNaturalist observations: 11693
- Wikidata: [Q46093](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q46093)
- iNaturalist taxon: [324890](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/324890)

## Names

- en: Mottled Beauty
- de: Wellenlinien-Rindenspanner
- fr: Boarmie recourbée
- nl: Variabele spikkelspanner

## Countries with the most observations

GB (2287), DE (986), AT (967), CH (927), FR (895), IT (771), ES (584), RU (564), FI (557), DK (320), PL (146), CZ (143)

## Summary

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

## Photo

![Variabele spikkelspanner](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/mottled-beauty/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andreas Manz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/171490561

## Machine access

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