#2703 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Beautiful Plume Moth
🇳🇱 Scherphoekvedermot ·Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Amblyptilia acanthadactyla is a moth of the family Pterophoroidea that can be found in Europe. It is also known from Iran and Georgia.
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,908 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1813 (213 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Beautiful Plume Moth
- Nederlands
- Scherphoekvedermot
- scientific name
- Amblyptilia acanthadactyla
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Pterophoridae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 2,293
- sightings worldwide
- 4,908
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,032
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1813 by Jacob Hübner
relatives· Pterophoridae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 322803, Wikidata Q2974668, GBIF 1859285, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.