#2810 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Apple Leafminer
🇳🇱 Hangmatmot ·Lyonetia clerkella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Shamil Murtazin · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Richard Shillaker · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © A Emmerson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Stephen James McWilliam · CC0
- 9. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Lyonetia clerkella , the apple leaf miner , is a moth in the Lyonetiidae family. It is found all over Europe, north-western Siberia, the Far East, northern Africa, the Middle East, Turkey, India and Japan.
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 41 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,319 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Apple Leafminer
- Nederlands
- Hangmatmot
- scientific name
- Lyonetia clerkella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Lyonetiidae
- sightings in NL
- 41
- sightings in Europe
- 1,945
- sightings worldwide
- 3,319
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,099
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 207527, Wikidata Q1124566, GBIF 1829322, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.