#2510 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Eyed Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Pauwoogpijlstaart ·Smerinthus ocellata
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Bas Kers (NL) · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 3. © richardjaybee · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 5. © Simon Rolph · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Paul Ritchie · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 8. © Thijs Calu · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 9. © Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 10. © Stanislav Krejčík · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Smerinthus ocellatus , known as the eyed hawk-moth , is a European moth of 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 214 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,421 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Eyed Hawkmoth
- Nederlands
- Pauwoogpijlstaart
- scientific name
- Smerinthus ocellata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Sphingidae
- sightings in NL
- 214
- sightings in Europe
- 7,828
- sightings worldwide
- 8,421
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,373
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
relatives· Sphingidae
#2413 📷 10Eurasian Hummingbird Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Kolibrievlinder
Macroglossum stellatarum
👀 719 in NL
#2436 📷 10Elephant Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Groot avondrood
Deilephila elpenor
👀 498 in NL
#2477 📷 8Lime Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Lindepijlstaart
Mimas tiliae
👀 306 in NL
#2491 📷 10Poplar Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Populierenpijlstaart
Laothoe populi
👀 269 in NL
#2504 📷 10Privet Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Ligusterpijlstaart
Sphinx ligustri
👀 227 in NL
#2537 📷 7Pine Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Dennenpijlstaart
Sphinx pinastri
👀 175 in NL
#2547 📷 8Convolvulus Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Windepijlstaart
Agrius convolvuli
👀 164 in NL
#2617 📷 9Small Elephant Hawkmoth
🇳🇱 Klein avondrood
Deilephila porcellus
👀 103 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205135, Wikidata Q50404928, GBIF 1862580, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.