#2824 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Small Chocolate-tip
🇳🇱 Donkere wapendrager ·Clostera pigra
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ramunė Vakarė · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Luca Sattin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Petri Metsälä · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Александр Корепанов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 9. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Clostera pigra , the small chocolate-tip , is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is a Palearctic ecozone species found from Europe ranging to Morocco in the south and Eastern Asia in the east.
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 38 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,535 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Chocolate-tip
- Nederlands
- Donkere wapendrager
- scientific name
- Clostera pigra
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Notodontidae
- sightings in NL
- 38
- sightings in Europe
- 1,224
- sightings worldwide
- 1,535
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,888
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
relatives· Notodontidae
#2427 📷 10Buff-tip
🇳🇱 Wapendrager
Phalera bucephala
👀 578 in NL
#2480 📷 10Oak Processionary
🇳🇱 Eikenprocessierups
Thaumetopoea processionea
👀 302 in NL
#2572 📷 10Iron Prominent
🇳🇱 Dromedaris
Notodonta dromedarius
👀 141 in NL
#2593 📷 7Coxcomb Prominent
🇳🇱 Kroonvogeltje
Ptilodon capucina
👀 123 in NL
#2604 📷 9Pebble Prominent
🇳🇱 Kameeltje
Notodonta ziczac
👀 116 in NL
#2615 📷 9Swallow Prominent
🇳🇱 Brandvlerkvlinder
Pheosia tremula
👀 107 in NL
#2635 📷 8Lesser Swallow Prominent
🇳🇱 Berkenbrandvlerkvlinder
Pheosia gnoma
👀 92 in NL
#2662 📷 10oak marbled brown
🇳🇱 Witlijntandvlinder
Drymonia querna
👀 82 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 338578, Wikidata Q933119, GBIF 1822819, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.