#2989 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Light Brown Apple Moth
🇳🇱 Australische bladroller ·Epiphyas postvittana
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Ben Sale · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Cherylyn Riley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © phlambler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Emily Langdon-Lassagne · CC0
- 5. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © David Akers · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Sterling Sheehy · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © Possums' End · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
The light brown apple moth ( Epiphyas postvittana ) (often abbreviated to LBAM) is a leafroller moth belonging to the lepidopteran family Tortricidae.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 17,638 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Francis Walker in 1863 (163 years ago).
- Not originally Dutch: it was introduced to the Netherlands.
fact sheet
- English
- Light Brown Apple Moth
- Nederlands
- Australische bladroller
- scientific name
- Epiphyas postvittana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tortricidae
- in NL
- introduced
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 10,134
- sightings worldwide
- 17,638
- GBIF records in NL
- 13
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1863 by Francis Walker
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 119934, Wikidata Q3055778, GBIF 1737131, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.