#2837 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Scarce Maple Pigmy
🇳🇱 Akenmineermot ·Stigmella aceris
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noordwijkerhout, Nederland
📍 6525 GD Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Nijmegen, Koningshof, 6523 DC Nijmegen, Netherlands
📍 Velp, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Paul Cook · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Марина Горбунова-Ëлкина · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Ilkka Tuunainen · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 6. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
- 8. 6525 GD Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 9. Nijmegen, Koningshof, 6523 DC Nijmegen, Netherlands:© Lars Willighagen · CC BY 4.0
- 10. Velp, Nederland:© andregeelhoed · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
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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 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,035 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Heinrich Frey in 1857 (169 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Scarce Maple Pigmy
- Nederlands
- Akenmineermot
- scientific name
- Stigmella aceris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Nepticulidae
- sightings in NL
- 36
- sightings in Europe
- 1,569
- sightings worldwide
- 2,035
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,182
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1857 by Heinrich Frey
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 559273, Wikidata Q1764754, GBIF 7698610, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.