#2901 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Plum Tortrix
🇳🇱 Pruimwitvlakbladroller ·Hedya pruniana
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what is it?
Hedya pruniana , the plum tortrix , is a species of moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone. In central Europe, it is a common species. In the east, the range extends through Anatolia and Iran, the Ural, Transcaucasia and western Kazakhstan to the Far East.
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 28 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,735 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1799 (227 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Plum Tortrix
- Nederlands
- Pruimwitvlakbladroller
- scientific name
- Hedya pruniana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tortricidae
- sightings in NL
- 28
- sightings in Europe
- 2,083
- sightings worldwide
- 2,735
- GBIF records in NL
- 965
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1799 by Jacob Hübner
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 474514, Wikidata Q310036, GBIF 1737524, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.