#2555 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Chestnut
🇳🇱 Bosbesuil ·Conistra vaccinii
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what is it?
The Chestnut (Conistra vaccinii) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe, North Africa and East through the Palearctic to Siberia.
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 155 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,964 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The Chestnut
- Nederlands
- Bosbesuil
- scientific name
- Conistra vaccinii
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 155
- sightings in Europe
- 7,349
- sightings worldwide
- 8,964
- GBIF records in NL
- 38,490
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 311616, Wikidata Q1038759, GBIF 1768702, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.