#2930 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Orange Moth
🇳🇱 Oranje iepentakvlinder ·Angerona prunaria
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what is it?
Angerona prunaria , the orange moth , is a lepidopteran from the family Geometridae, the geometer 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 12 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,565 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel in 1829 (197 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Orange Moth
- Nederlands
- Oranje iepentakvlinder
- scientific name
- Angerona prunaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 12
- sightings in Europe
- 3,958
- sightings worldwide
- 4,565
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,919
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1829 by Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 475135, Wikidata Q2005543, GBIF 1965913, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.