#2683 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Webb's Wainscot
🇳🇱 Egelskopboorder ·Globia sparganii
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Luca Sattin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Philippe Geniez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Philippe Geniez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Enrico Tomschke · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © richardjaybee · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Webb's Wainscot (Capsula sparganii) , formerly known as Archanara sparganii , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, Central Asia, from southern Siberia to Manchuria, Korea, Turkey, Syria and Iran.
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 72 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 652 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Webb's Wainscot
- Nederlands
- Egelskopboorder
- scientific name
- Globia sparganii
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 72
- sightings in Europe
- 432
- sightings worldwide
- 652
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Noctuidae
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
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Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
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Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
🇳🇱 Haarbos
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👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 502655, Wikidata Q21756747, GBIF 4534429, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.