#2656 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Willowherb Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Teunisbloempijlstaart ·Proserpinus proserpina
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Baranyi Tamás · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 3. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © David Barros Cardona · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © gbohne · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © giorege1959 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Jürgen Mangelsdorf · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
what is it?
The willowherb hawkmoth ( Proserpinus proserpina ) is a species of moth in the family Sphingidae.
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 85 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,198 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1772 (254 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Willowherb Hawkmoth
- Nederlands
- Teunisbloempijlstaart
- scientific name
- Proserpinus proserpina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Sphingidae
- IUCN Red List
- DD · data deficient
- sightings in NL
- 85
- sightings in Europe
- 2,048
- sightings worldwide
- 2,198
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,838
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1772 by Peter Simon Pallas
IUCN in Dutch: onvoldoende gegevens. Blank means the sources don't say.
relatives· Sphingidae
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👀 719 in NL
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Deilephila elpenor
👀 498 in NL
#2477 📷 8Lime Hawkmoth
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Mimas tiliae
👀 306 in NL
#2491 📷 10Poplar Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Populierenpijlstaart
Laothoe populi
👀 269 in NL
#2504 📷 10Privet Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Ligusterpijlstaart
Sphinx ligustri
👀 227 in NL
#2510 📷 10Eyed Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Pauwoogpijlstaart
Smerinthus ocellata
👀 214 in NL
#2537 📷 7Pine Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Dennenpijlstaart
Sphinx pinastri
👀 175 in NL
#2547 📷 8Convolvulus Hawkmoth
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Agrius convolvuli
👀 164 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 110657, Wikidata Q1365048, GBIF 1864161, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.