#2444 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Brimstone Moth
🇳🇱 Hagedoornvlinder ·Opisthograptis luteolata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bernard DUPONT · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Axel Dehalleux · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © ALLEMAND Guillaume · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © ALLEMAND Guillaume · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Amsterdam - Noord:© Stan van Remmerden · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Gelderland, NL:© cornell1987 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Elburg, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The brimstone moth ( Opisthograptis luteolata ) is a moth of the family Geometridae.
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 435 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 19,154 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Brimstone Moth
- Nederlands
- Hagedoornvlinder
- scientific name
- Opisthograptis luteolata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 435
- sightings in Europe
- 17,818
- sightings worldwide
- 19,154
- GBIF records in NL
- 62,343
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 59588, Wikidata Q867682, GBIF 1960617, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.