#2910 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Viper's Bugloss Moth
🇳🇱 Grote zwartwitmot ·Ethmia bipunctella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Aalsumstraat, Tilburg, Brabant, NL
📍 Netherlands
📍 5694 Breugel, Nederland
📍 5694 Breugel, Nederland
📍 Bemmel, Nederland
📍 Loosduinen-do, The Hague, Netherlands
📍 Lange Dreef, Culemborg, Gelderland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
- 4. Aalsumstraat, Tilburg, Brabant, NL:© Jo Akker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 6. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Bemmel, Nederland:© Simon Hazenberg · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Loosduinen-do, The Hague, Netherlands:© Adrian · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Lange Dreef, Culemborg, Gelderland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Ethmia bipunctella is a diurnal moth from the family Depressariidae. It can be found in Central and Southern Europe, North Africa, Asia and the northeastern part of North America. E. iranella was formerly included here as a subspecies.
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 26 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 6,516 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Viper's Bugloss Moth
- Nederlands
- Grote zwartwitmot
- scientific name
- Ethmia bipunctella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Ethmiidae
- sightings in NL
- 26
- sightings in Europe
- 5,221
- sightings worldwide
- 6,516
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,877
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Johan Christian Fabricius
relatives· Ethmiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 219582, Wikidata Q141859, GBIF 1845270, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.