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#2565 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Eye-spotted Bud Moth

🇳🇱 Rode knopbladroller ·Spilonota ocellana

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Eye-spotted Bud Moth, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Spilonota ocellana , the bud moth , is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone (from North Africa and Europe to Iran, eastern Russia, China (Hebei, Inner Mongolia, Jilin, Zhejiang, Fujian, Hubei, Sichuan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai), Korea and Japan). It is also present on Madeira and in North America.

base stats

  • NL sightings 150iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 4,097iNaturalist 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 150 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 4,097 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Michael Denis in 1775 (251 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Eye-spotted Bud Moth
Nederlands
Rode knopbladroller
scientific name
Spilonota ocellana
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Tortricidae
sightings in NL
150
sightings in Europe
1,361
sightings worldwide
4,097
GBIF records in NL
11,428
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1775 by Michael Denis

relatives· Tortricidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 231405, Wikidata Q898340, GBIF 5103066, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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