#2781 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Spindle Ermine Moth
🇳🇱 Kardinaalsmutsstippelmot ·Yponomeuta cagnagella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Yponomeuta cagnagella , the spindle ermine , is a moth from the family Yponomeutidae, the ermine moths. The wingspan of the moth ranges from 19 to 26 millimetres.
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 47 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 10,366 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1813 (213 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Spindle Ermine Moth
- Nederlands
- Kardinaalsmutsstippelmot
- scientific name
- Yponomeuta cagnagella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Yponomeutidae
- sightings in NL
- 47
- sightings in Europe
- 1,719
- sightings worldwide
- 10,366
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,205
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1813 by Jacob Hübner
relatives· Yponomeutidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 319551, Wikidata Q668072, GBIF 4525369, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.