#2727 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Muslin Moth
🇳🇱 Mendicabeer ·Diaphora mendica
📍 Oisterwijk, Nederland
📍 Heemskerklaan, Velp, Gelderland, NL
📍 6964 BG Hall, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © ingridaltmann · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © gailhampshire · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © markus lilje · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 5. © olivje · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © ingridaltmann · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Oisterwijk, Nederland:© Simon Hazenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Heemskerklaan, Velp, Gelderland, NL:© Gideon van Melle · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 6964 BG Hall, Nederland:© Johan Devos · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Diaphora mendica , the muslin moth , is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone east to Lake Baikal.
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 58 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 6,559 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Muslin Moth
- Nederlands
- Mendicabeer
- scientific name
- Diaphora mendica
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 58
- sightings in Europe
- 5,745
- sightings worldwide
- 6,559
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,587
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759 by Carl Alexander Clerck
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 129156, Wikidata Q1543716, GBIF 6097214, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.