#2944 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Striped Hawkmoth

🇳🇱 Gestreepte pijlstaart ·Hyles livornica

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © fubr · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
4. © sknuteson · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Sandy Rae · CC BY 4.0
6. © kevinjolliffe · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Namakwa District Municipality, South Africa:© Elise Engelbrecht · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. Мунайлинский район, Казахстан:© Denis Makhnovsky · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Keightley Way, Gibraltar:© hacklemesh · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Psili Ammos, Serifos, Grecia:© Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Hyles livornica , the striped hawk-moth , is a moth of the family Sphingidae.

base stats

NL sightings 7iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 8,398iNaturalist observations

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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
8,398 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1780 (246 years ago).