#2641 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Nine-spotted Moth
🇳🇱 Phegeavlinder ·Amata phegea
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what is it?
The nine-spotted moth or yellow belted burnet ( Amata phegea , formerly Syntomis phegea ) is a moth in the family Erebidae ("tiger moths").
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
- Spotted 89 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 21,182 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Nine-spotted Moth
- Nederlands
- Phegeavlinder
- scientific name
- Amata phegea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 89
- sightings in Europe
- 15,510
- sightings worldwide
- 21,182
- GBIF records in NL
- 11,951
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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👀 2.3k in NL
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👀 1k in NL
#2420 📷 10Pale Tussock Moth
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👀 660 in NL
#2426 📷 10Ruby Tiger Moth
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👀 588 in NL
#2431 📷 10Straw Dot
🇳🇱 Stro-uiltje
Rivula sericealis
👀 524 in NL
#2432 📷 10White Ermine
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Spilosoma lubricipeda
👀 523 in NL
#2450 📷 7Garden Tiger
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Arctia caja
👀 407 in NL
#2456 📷 10Brown-tail Moth
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👀 385 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 57489, Wikidata Q1755105, GBIF 1808450, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.