#2725 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Small Straw Twist
🇳🇱 Scherpbandbladroller ·Paramesia gnomana
7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jan Grathwohl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © lappuggla · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Lukas Lattwein · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © jkt · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Andrei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Paramesia gnomana is a species of moth belonging to the family Tortricidae, first described by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759.
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 59 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 749 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Straw Twist
- Nederlands
- Scherpbandbladroller
- scientific name
- Paramesia gnomana
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Tortricidae
- sightings in NL
- 59
- sightings in Europe
- 425
- sightings worldwide
- 749
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,131
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Tortricidae
#2415 📷 9Common Marble
🇳🇱 Brandnetelbladroller
Syricoris lacunana
👀 692 in NL
#2442 📷 10Green Oak Tortrix
🇳🇱 Groene eikenbladroller
Tortrix viridana
👀 451 in NL
#2482 📷 10Klimopbladroller
Clepsis dumicolana
👀 296 in NL
#2489 📷 9Variegated Golden Tortrix
🇳🇱 Gevlamde bladroller
Archips xylosteana
👀 276 in NL
#2490 📷 10Privet Tortrix
🇳🇱 Tuinbladroller
Clepsis consimilana
👀 272 in NL
#2515 📷 10Green Budworm Moth
🇳🇱 Gewone witvlakbladroller
Hedya nubiferana
👀 199 in NL
#2520 📷 7Barred Marble
🇳🇱 Paardenbloembladroller
Celypha striana
👀 191 in NL
#2523 📷 8Large Fruit-tree Tortrix
🇳🇱 Grote appelbladroller
Archips podana
👀 187 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 527511, Wikidata Q11994761, GBIF 5104558, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.