#2467 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Goat Moth
🇳🇱 Wilgenhoutrups ·Cossus cossus
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Drenthe, NL
📍 Wilhelminastraat, Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, NL
📍 8343 Zuidveen, Nederland
📍 Roggel
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Valter Jacinto | Portugal · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Wolf-Achim and Hanna Roland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Camillo De Berardinis · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Orchi · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. Drenthe, NL:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Wilhelminastraat, Nuenen, Noord-Brabant, NL:© tberk · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 8343 Zuidveen, Nederland:© janvano1 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Roggel:© clairetjuh18 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cossus cossus , the goat moth , is a moth of the family Cossidae. It is found in Northern Africa, Asia and Europe.
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 353 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 21,234 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Goat Moth
- Nederlands
- Wilgenhoutrups
- scientific name
- Cossus cossus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Cossidae
- sightings in NL
- 353
- sightings in Europe
- 19,003
- sightings worldwide
- 21,234
- GBIF records in NL
- 14,820
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Cossidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362611, Wikidata Q278629, GBIF 5101394, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.