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Common Yellow Conch

🇳🇱 Distelbladroller ·Agapeta hamana

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Common Yellow Conch, photo 1 of 7
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what is it?

Agapeta hamana is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in Europe (from the Iberian Peninsula to the Ural Mountains), western and southern Siberia, the Caucasus, Kazakhstan, Transcaucasia, Asia Minor, Central Asia, Iran, Afghanistan, Mongolia, western China and northern India.

base stats

  • NL sightings 79iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 7,892iNaturalist observations

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

  • Spotted 79 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 7,892 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Common Yellow Conch
Nederlands
Distelbladroller
scientific name
Agapeta hamana
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Tortricidae
sightings in NL
79
sightings in Europe
7,143
sightings worldwide
7,892
GBIF records in NL
9,427
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1758

relatives· Tortricidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205754, Wikidata Q141143, GBIF 5102951, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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