#2927 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Twin-barred Knot-horn
🇳🇱 Smalle weegbreemot ·Homoeosoma sinuella
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what is it?
Homoeosoma sinuella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is found in Europe.
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 14 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,433 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Twin-barred Knot-horn
- Nederlands
- Smalle weegbreemot
- scientific name
- Homoeosoma sinuella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Pyralidae
- sightings in NL
- 14
- sightings in Europe
- 4,352
- sightings worldwide
- 5,433
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,340
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Johan Christian Fabricius
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Oncocera semirubella
👀 181 in NL
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 362639, Wikidata Q2306916, GBIF 5126052, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.