#2665 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Puss Moth
🇳🇱 Hermelijnvlinder ·Cerura vinula
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © sjoc · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © AnneTanne · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © waldemar56 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Lukas Jonaitis · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Rachel · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Lukas Jonaitis · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Cerura vinula , the puss moth , is a lepidopteran from the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae .
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 79 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,597 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Puss Moth
- Nederlands
- Hermelijnvlinder
- scientific name
- Cerura vinula
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Notodontidae
- sightings in NL
- 79
- sightings in Europe
- 3,387
- sightings worldwide
- 4,597
- GBIF records in NL
- 7,217
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Notodontidae
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#2572 📷 10Iron Prominent
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👀 141 in NL
#2593 📷 7Coxcomb Prominent
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👀 123 in NL
#2604 📷 9Pebble Prominent
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Notodonta ziczac
👀 116 in NL
#2615 📷 9Swallow Prominent
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Pheosia tremula
👀 107 in NL
#2635 📷 8Lesser Swallow Prominent
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 56226, Wikidata Q151543, GBIF 1825156, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.