#2615 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Swallow Prominent
🇳🇱 Brandvlerkvlinder ·Pheosia tremula
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what is it?
The Swallow Prominent ( Pheosia tremula ) is a moth from the family Notodontidae.
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 107 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,752 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Swallow Prominent
- Nederlands
- Brandvlerkvlinder
- scientific name
- Pheosia tremula
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Notodontidae
- sightings in NL
- 107
- sightings in Europe
- 5,039
- sightings worldwide
- 5,752
- GBIF records in NL
- 14,914
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759 by Carl Alexander Clerck
relatives· Notodontidae
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#2480 📷 10Oak Processionary
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Thaumetopoea processionea
👀 302 in NL
#2572 📷 10Iron Prominent
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Notodonta dromedarius
👀 141 in NL
#2593 📷 7Coxcomb Prominent
🇳🇱 Kroonvogeltje
Ptilodon capucina
👀 123 in NL
#2604 📷 9Pebble Prominent
🇳🇱 Kameeltje
Notodonta ziczac
👀 116 in NL
#2635 📷 8Lesser Swallow Prominent
🇳🇱 Berkenbrandvlerkvlinder
Pheosia gnoma
👀 92 in NL
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Drymonia querna
👀 82 in NL
#2665 📷 10Puss Moth
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Cerura vinula
👀 79 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 319552, Wikidata Q2050867, GBIF 1825983, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.