#2900 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Horse Chestnut Moth
🇳🇱 Grijze heispanner ·Pachycnemia hippocastanaria
📍 Camping Loodsmansduin, Den Hoorn, North Holland, NL
📍 Schinveld, Nederland
📍 3971 Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands
📍 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 Breda West, Breda, Nederland
📍 Ede, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Quentin Gaillard · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Philippe Geniez · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Kjeld Brem · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. Camping Loodsmansduin, Den Hoorn, North Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 5. Schinveld, Nederland:© Co Waalen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. 3971 Driebergen-Rijsenburg, Netherlands:© Michiel de Groot · CC BY 4.0
- 7. 3925 Scherpenzeel, Nederland:© Rob C. H. M. Oudejans · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Breda West, Breda, Nederland:© Jurriën de Vries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Ede, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Pachycnemia hippocastanaria , the horse chestnut moth , is a moth of the Geometridae family. It is found in most of 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 28 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,253 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1799 (227 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Horse Chestnut Moth
- Nederlands
- Grijze heispanner
- scientific name
- Pachycnemia hippocastanaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Geometridae
- sightings in NL
- 28
- sightings in Europe
- 3,046
- sightings worldwide
- 3,253
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,886
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1799 by Jacob Hübner
relatives· Geometridae
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👀 977 in NL
#2408 📷 7Yellow Shell Moth
🇳🇱 Gestreepte Goudspanner
Camptogramma bilineata
👀 893 in NL
#2409 📷 10Small Dusty Wave
🇳🇱 Paardenbloemspanner
Idaea seriata
👀 889 in NL
#2412 📷 10Willow Beauty
🇳🇱 Schaduwspikkelspanner
Peribatodes rhomboidaria
👀 725 in NL
#2418 📷 10Double-striped Pug
🇳🇱 Zwartkamdwergspanner
Gymnoscelis rufifasciata
👀 668 in NL
#2435 📷 8Single-dotted Wave
🇳🇱 Vlekstipspanner
Idaea dimidiata
👀 509 in NL
#2438 📷 10Small Engrailed
🇳🇱 Gewone spikkelspanner
Ectropis crepuscularia
👀 486 in NL
#2444 📷 10Brimstone Moth
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👀 435 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 483346, Wikidata Q1800308, GBIF 1966351, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.