#2544 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Common Bagworm Moth
🇳🇱 Gewone zakdrager ·Psyche casta
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Psyche casta is a nocturnal moth from the family Psychidae, the bagworm moths. The wingspan of the males ranges from 12 to 15 millimeters. The females do not have wings.
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 167 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 15,918 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Peter Simon Pallas in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Bagworm Moth
- Nederlands
- Gewone zakdrager
- scientific name
- Psyche casta
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Psychidae
- sightings in NL
- 167
- sightings in Europe
- 1,749
- sightings worldwide
- 15,918
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,935
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767 by Peter Simon Pallas
relatives· Psychidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 61413, Wikidata Q898341, GBIF 1854202, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.