#2852 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Large Beech Piercer
🇳🇱 Beukenspiegelmot ·Cydia fagiglandana
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Geertjesweg, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL
📍 Bennekom, Nederland
📍 5694 Breugel, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Fernando de Juana · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Barry Walter · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Rumsaïs Blatrix · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Valter Jacinto · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Geertjesweg, Wageningen, Gelderland, NL:© Siebe Ritsema van Eck · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Cydia fagiglandana , the beech moth , is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in most of 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 34 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,705 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Philipp Christoph Zeller in 1841 (185 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Large Beech Piercer
- Nederlands
- Beukenspiegelmot
- scientific name
- Cydia fagiglandana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tortricidae
- sightings in NL
- 34
- sightings in Europe
- 2,442
- sightings worldwide
- 3,705
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,175
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1841 by Philipp Christoph Zeller
relatives· Tortricidae
#2415 📷 9Common Marble
🇳🇱 Brandnetelbladroller
Syricoris lacunana
👀 692 in NL
#2442 📷 10Green Oak Tortrix
🇳🇱 Groene eikenbladroller
Tortrix viridana
👀 451 in NL
#2482 📷 10Klimopbladroller
Clepsis dumicolana
👀 296 in NL
#2489 📷 9Variegated Golden Tortrix
🇳🇱 Gevlamde bladroller
Archips xylosteana
👀 276 in NL
#2490 📷 10Privet Tortrix
🇳🇱 Tuinbladroller
Clepsis consimilana
👀 272 in NL
#2515 📷 10Green Budworm Moth
🇳🇱 Gewone witvlakbladroller
Hedya nubiferana
👀 199 in NL
#2520 📷 7Barred Marble
🇳🇱 Paardenbloembladroller
Celypha striana
👀 191 in NL
#2523 📷 8Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
🇳🇱 Grote appelbladroller
Archips podana
👀 187 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324869, Wikidata Q855556, GBIF 1737776, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.