#2885 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Lyme Grass
🇳🇱 Zandhaverboorder ·Longalatedes elymi
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what is it?
The Lyme grass ( Longalatedes elymi ) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found along the coasts of southern Sweden, southern Finland, Denmark, Estonia, northern Poland, northern Germany and eastern Great Britain.
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 30 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 179 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Lyme Grass
- Nederlands
- Zandhaverboorder
- scientific name
- Longalatedes elymi
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 30
- sightings in Europe
- 68
- sightings worldwide
- 179
- GBIF records in NL
- 966
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 963337, Wikidata Q48818281, GBIF 4534398, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.