---
title: "Vestal"
description: "Rhodometra sacraria — Owady i pająki. Rhodometra sacraria, the vestal, is a moth of the family Geometridae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/vestal
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vestal

> Rhodometra sacraria — Owady i pająki. Rhodometra sacraria, the vestal, is a moth of the family Geometridae.

- Scientific name: *Rhodometra sacraria*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 17938
- Wikidata: [Q310084](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q310084)
- iNaturalist taxon: [116380](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/116380)

## Names

- en: Vestal
- de: Rotgestreifter Wanderspanner
- es: La Vestal
- fr: Phalène sacrée
- nl: Roodstreepspanner

## Countries with the most observations

ES (6256), PT (3092), FR (1912), IT (1894), ZA (787), GB (676), GR (296), IL (261), BW (181), AR (178), TR (123), BG (115)

## Summary

Rhodometra sacraria, the vestal, is a moth of the family Geometridae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.

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

## Photo

![Vestal](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/vestal/medium.jpg)

Photo: Irene Saltini · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/101389309

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/vestal?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).