#2769 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Sprawler
🇳🇱 Kromzitter ·Asteroscopus sphinx
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what is it?
The Sprawler (Asteroscopus sphinx) is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found throughout western Europe,but is mainly a Northern species occurring South to Northern Spain the southern edge of the Alps, Central Italy and Northern Greece. North to southern Sweden. East to Kaliningrad and Moscow. Also in Central Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus and Asia Minor.
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 50 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,474 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Sprawler
- Nederlands
- Kromzitter
- scientific name
- Asteroscopus sphinx
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 50
- sightings in Europe
- 1,291
- sightings worldwide
- 1,474
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,680
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 483460, Wikidata Q1127101, GBIF 1766274, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.