#2894 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Spinach moth
🇳🇱 Gloriemot ·Chrysoesthia drurella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Chrysoesthia drurella is a moth from the Gelechiidae family. In is found in most of Europe, Russia and North America.
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 29 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 671 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spinach moth
- Nederlands
- Gloriemot
- scientific name
- Chrysoesthia drurella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Gelechiidae
- sightings in NL
- 29
- sightings in Europe
- 458
- sightings worldwide
- 671
- GBIF records in NL
- 830
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Gelechiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205226, Wikidata Q1369871, GBIF 1851347, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.