#2617 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Small Elephant Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Klein avondrood ·Deilephila porcellus
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what is it?
Deilephila porcellus , known as the small elephant hawk-moth , is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It is found in Europe, North Africa and Western Asia.
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 103 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 10,375 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Elephant Hawkmoth
- Nederlands
- Klein avondrood
- scientific name
- Deilephila porcellus
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Sphingidae
- sightings in NL
- 103
- sightings in Europe
- 9,648
- sightings worldwide
- 10,375
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,282
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Sphingidae
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👀 498 in NL
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👀 306 in NL
#2491 📷 10Poplar Hawkmoth
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Laothoe populi
👀 269 in NL
#2504 📷 10Privet Hawkmoth
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Sphinx ligustri
👀 227 in NL
#2510 📷 10Eyed Hawkmoth
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Smerinthus ocellata
👀 214 in NL
#2537 📷 7Pine Hawkmoth
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👀 175 in NL
#2547 📷 8Convolvulus Hawkmoth
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👀 164 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 202083, Wikidata Q115128, GBIF 1864358, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.