#2736 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Beech Midget
🇳🇱 Beukenvouwmot ·Phyllonorycter maestingella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
📍 9244 CJ Beetsterzwaag, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Jim Petranka · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Rob Curtis · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © Rob Curtis · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © carnifex · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Jim Petranka · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Arnold Wijker · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Noordwijkerhout, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Lisse, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 10. 9244 CJ Beetsterzwaag, Nederland:© teddydolstra · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Phyllonorycter maestingella is a moth of the Gracillariidae family. It is found in Europe, Russia and British Columbia, Canada.
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 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 1,773 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Otto Friedrich Müller in 1764 (262 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Beech Midget
- Nederlands
- Beukenvouwmot
- scientific name
- Phyllonorycter maestingella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Gracillariidae
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 410
- sightings worldwide
- 1,773
- GBIF records in NL
- 3,092
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1764 by Otto Friedrich Müller
relatives· Gracillariidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 495777, Wikidata Q998329, GBIF 1749929, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.