#2846 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Red-tipped Clearwing Moth
🇳🇱 Wilgenwespvlinder ·Synanthedon formicaeformis
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL
📍 6911 KM Pannerden, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
📍 Bemelen, Netherlands
📍 Udenhout, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Reflectitur Photons · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Dieder Plu · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Dieder Plu · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 5. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Nationaal Park De Loonse En Drunense Duinen, NL-NB-TI, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. 6911 KM Pannerden, Nederland:© Paul G. Schrijvershof · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Bemelen, Netherlands:© Remco Hofland · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Udenhout, Nederland:© Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Synanthedon formicaeformis , the red-tipped clearwing , is a moth of the Sesiidae family and can be found in all of Europe, the eastern Palearctic ecozone and the Near East. The larvae sometimes form pear-shaped galls on willows ( Salix spp). It was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1783.
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 35 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 658 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1783 (243 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Red-tipped Clearwing Moth
- Nederlands
- Wilgenwespvlinder
- scientific name
- Synanthedon formicaeformis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Sesiidae
- sightings in NL
- 35
- sightings in Europe
- 565
- sightings worldwide
- 658
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,406
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1783 by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper
relatives· Sesiidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 51685, Wikidata Q1638206, GBIF 1940510, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.