#2845 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
White-blotched Clothes Moth
🇳🇱 Zustermot ·Monopis monachella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 9421 TH Bovensmilde, Netherlands
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands
📍 9989 Warffum, Nederland
📍 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Stuart Tingley · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © portioid · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © 羅忠良 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Graeme Cocks · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. 9421 TH Bovensmilde, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Schiermonnikoog, Schiermonnikoog, Friesland, Netherlands:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9989 Warffum, Nederland:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 1797 SL Den Hoorn Texel, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Monopis monachella is a moth of the Tineidae family. It is widespread in Eurasia, Africa, India, Sri Lanka, Burma, Sumatra, Java, the Philippines, Taiwan, Japan, New Guinea, Samoa, North America and South America.
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,491 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1796 (230 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- White-blotched Clothes Moth
- Nederlands
- Zustermot
- scientific name
- Monopis monachella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tineidae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 889
- sightings worldwide
- 1,491
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,868
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1796 by Jacob Hübner
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 128894, Wikidata Q1359113, GBIF 1857828, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.