#2489 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Variegated Golden Tortrix
🇳🇱 Gevlamde bladroller ·Archips xylosteana
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Christian Sørensen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Valter Jacinto · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. © David Renoult · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Archips xylosteana , the variegated golden tortrix or brown oak tortrix , is a moth of the family Tortricidae.
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 276 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,974 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Variegated Golden Tortrix
- Nederlands
- Gevlamde bladroller
- scientific name
- Archips xylosteana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tortricidae
- sightings in NL
- 276
- sightings in Europe
- 2,620
- sightings worldwide
- 4,974
- GBIF records in NL
- 24,260
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Tortricidae
#2415 📷 9Common Marble
🇳🇱 Brandnetelbladroller
Syricoris lacunana
👀 692 in NL
#2442 📷 10Green Oak Tortrix
🇳🇱 Groene eikenbladroller
Tortrix viridana
👀 451 in NL
#2482 📷 10Klimopbladroller
Clepsis dumicolana
👀 296 in NL
#2490 📷 10Privet Tortrix
🇳🇱 Tuinbladroller
Clepsis consimilana
👀 272 in NL
#2515 📷 10Green Budworm Moth
🇳🇱 Gewone witvlakbladroller
Hedya nubiferana
👀 199 in NL
#2520 📷 7Barred Marble
🇳🇱 Paardenbloembladroller
Celypha striana
👀 191 in NL
#2523 📷 8Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
🇳🇱 Grote appelbladroller
Archips podana
👀 187 in NL
#2524 📷 8Dark Fruit-tree Tortrix
🇳🇱 Leverkleurige bladroller
Pandemis heparana
👀 187 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324195, Wikidata Q135240, GBIF 1746876, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.