#2942 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Brassy Longhorn
🇳🇱 Gouden langsprietmot ·Nemophora metallica
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Nemophora metallica is a moth of the family Adelidae. It is found in Europe.
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 8 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 4,968 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brassy Longhorn
- Nederlands
- Gouden langsprietmot
- scientific name
- Nemophora metallica
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Adelidae
- sightings in NL
- 8
- sightings in Europe
- 4,425
- sightings worldwide
- 4,968
- GBIF records in NL
- 709
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759 by Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus
relatives· Adelidae
#2433 📷 7Yellow-barred Longhorn
🇳🇱 Geelbandlangsprietmot
Nemophora degeerella
👀 520 in NL
#2474 📷 9Green Longhorn Moth
🇳🇱 Smaragdlangsprietmot
Adela reaumurella
👀 323 in NL
#2613 📷 10Meadow Longhorn
🇳🇱 Pinksterbloemlangsprietmot
Cauchas rufimitrella
👀 108 in NL
#2872 📷 10Large Longhorn
🇳🇱 Bleke langsprietmot
Nematopogon swammerdamella
👀 31 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 326739, Wikidata Q1351493, GBIF 7767114, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.