#2525 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
White-shouldered House Moth
🇳🇱 Witkopmot ·Endrosis sarcitrella
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what is it?
The white-shouldered house moth ( Endrosis sarcitrella ) is a species of gelechioid moth. It belongs to the subfamily Oecophorinae of the concealer moth family (Oecophoridae), just like the brown house moth ( Hofmannophila pseudospretella ). Though several presumed congeners of E. sarcitrella were described, its genus Endrosis is currently understood to be monotypic.
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 186 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,486 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-shouldered House Moth
- Nederlands
- Witkopmot
- scientific name
- Endrosis sarcitrella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Oecophoridae
- sightings in NL
- 186
- sightings in Europe
- 4,130
- sightings worldwide
- 7,486
- GBIF records in NL
- 14,966
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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👀 67 in NL
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Harpella forficella
👀 59 in NL
#2762 📷 10Oosterse schone
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#2817 📷 10Satijnvleugelsikkelmot
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👀 40 in NL
#2858 📷 10Thatch Tubic
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205758, Wikidata Q682785, GBIF 1837172, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.