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#2936 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Black-veined Moth

🇳🇱 Vals witje ·Siona lineata

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Black-veined Moth, photo 1 of 8
1/8 © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Siona lineata , the black-veined moth , is a moth of the family Geometridae....

base stats

  • NL sightings 9iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 9,490iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 9 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 9,490 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Black-veined Moth
Nederlands
Vals witje
scientific name
Siona lineata
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Geometridae
sightings in NL
9
sightings in Europe
8,862
sightings worldwide
9,490
GBIF records in NL
2,120
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli

relatives· Geometridae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 318926, Wikidata Q1467389, GBIF 5144543, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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