#2512 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Horse-chestnut Leafminer

🇳🇱 Paardenkastanjemineermot ·Cameraria ohridella

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Ryszard · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © michi1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © thehowlingwindbeckons · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Robert W. Harding · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Bruno Bell · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Pavel Šinkyřík · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
8. © bondaruk_elena · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. © Alexis Tinker-Tsavalas · CC BY 4.0
10. © blaupfeilda · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The horse-chestnut leaf miner ( Cameraria ohridella ) is a leaf-mining moth of the Gracillariidae family. The horse-chestnut leaf miner was first observed in Macedonia in 1984, and was described as a new species in 1986. Its larvae are leaf miners on the common horse-chestnut ( Aesculus hippocastanum ). The horse-chestnut leafminer was first collected and inadvertently pressed in herbarium sheets by the botanist Theodor von Heldreich in central Greece in 1879.

base stats

NL sightings 210iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 12,463iNaturalist observations

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).