#2583 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Dotted Oak Knot-horn

🇳🇱 Eikenlichtmot ·Phycita roborella

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Suso Tizón · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
2. © Fernando de Juana · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Pascal Dubois · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Leek, B. v Rasquertstraat, 9351 NC Tolbert, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Rolde, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 9351 Leek, Nederland:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 6874 Wolfheze, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. 5694 Breugel, Nederland:© Aart Broekema · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 6325 Berg en Terblijt, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Phycita roborella is a moth of the family Pyralidae. It is – under its junior synonym Tinea spissicella – the type species of its genus Phycita , and by extension of the subfamily Phycitinae.

base stats

NL sightings 127iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,750iNaturalist observations

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).