#2686 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Great Prominent
🇳🇱 Eikentandvlinder ·Peridea anceps
📍 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland
📍 Wageningen, Nederland
📍 7963 PZ Ruinen, Nederland
📍 Jonaserf, Wenum-Wiesel, Gelderland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © ALLEMAND Guillaume · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Philip Sansum · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Wageningen, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. 7963 PZ Ruinen, Nederland:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Jonaserf, Wenum-Wiesel, Gelderland, NL:© Peter Birdsall · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Peridea anceps ( great prominent ) is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Central and Southern Europe and North Africa.
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 71 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,963 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Great Prominent
- Nederlands
- Eikentandvlinder
- scientific name
- Peridea anceps
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Notodontidae
- sightings in NL
- 71
- sightings in Europe
- 3,703
- sightings worldwide
- 3,963
- GBIF records in NL
- 15,334
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
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👀 302 in NL
#2572 📷 10Iron Prominent
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Notodonta dromedarius
👀 141 in NL
#2593 📷 7Coxcomb Prominent
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👀 123 in NL
#2604 📷 9Pebble Prominent
🇳🇱 Kameeltje
Notodonta ziczac
👀 116 in NL
#2615 📷 9Swallow Prominent
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👀 107 in NL
#2635 📷 8Lesser Swallow Prominent
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 320874, Wikidata Q2900168, GBIF 1822346, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.