#2639 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Black-tipped Ermine
🇳🇱 Grootvlekstippelmot ·Yponomeuta plumbella
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
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what is it?
Yponomeuta plumbella is a moth from the family Yponomeutidae, the ermine moths....
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 90 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,416 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Michael Denis in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Black-tipped Ermine
- Nederlands
- Grootvlekstippelmot
- scientific name
- Yponomeuta plumbella
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Yponomeutidae
- sightings in NL
- 90
- sightings in Europe
- 2,024
- sightings worldwide
- 2,416
- GBIF records in NL
- 5,873
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Michael Denis
relatives· Yponomeutidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324219, Wikidata Q457848, GBIF 1830410, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.