#3088 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
North American Luna Moth
🇳🇱 Amerikaanse maanvlinder ·Actias luna
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe
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what is it?
Actias luna , the luna moth , is a lime-green, Nearctic Saturniid moth in the family Saturniidae, subfamily Saturniinae. 5 in), making it one of the largest moths in North America.
base stats
Bars compare against all animals on log scales: up to 300,000 Dutch and 600,000 worldwide sightings (the most-seen species), 150 t (blue whale), 30 m and 400 years (Greenland shark).
fun facts
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 70,959 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- North American Luna Moth
- Nederlands
- Amerikaanse maanvlinder
- scientific name
- Actias luna
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Saturniidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 70,959
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 47916, Wikidata Q135289, GBIF 1865668, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.