#2701 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Common Swift Moth
🇳🇱 Slawortelboorder ·Korscheltellus lupulina
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Wijchen
📍 Ternaard, Hantumerweg, 9145 RR Ternaard, Netherlands
📍 Nes, Schagen, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Kim Falck · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © naturalhistoryman · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Floris P · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 6. Wijchen:© twolfnl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Ternaard, Hantumerweg, 9145 RR Ternaard, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Nes, Schagen, Noord-Holland, NL:© knol69 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The common swift ( Korscheltellus lupulina ) is a moth of the family Hepialidae. It was previously placed in the genus Hepialus . It is a common, often abundant European species.
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 65 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,710 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Common Swift Moth
- Nederlands
- Slawortelboorder
- scientific name
- Korscheltellus lupulina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Hepialidae
- sightings in NL
- 65
- sightings in Europe
- 6,886
- sightings worldwide
- 8,710
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,222
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Hepialidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 626665, Wikidata Q27997734, GBIF 5879654, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.