#2622 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Wood Leopard Moth
🇳🇱 Gestippelde houtvlinder ·Zeuzera pyrina
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Anxos Romeo Barreiro · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Vicky · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Roberto Sindaco · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 7. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Julien Reiners · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Manuel Raab · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Zeuzera pyrina , the leopard moth or wood leopard moth , is a moth of the family Cossidae.
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 99 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,764 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Wood Leopard Moth
- Nederlands
- Gestippelde houtvlinder
- scientific name
- Zeuzera pyrina
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Cossidae
- sightings in NL
- 99
- sightings in Europe
- 9,207
- sightings worldwide
- 12,764
- GBIF records in NL
- 8,204
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
relatives· Cossidae
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 200930, Wikidata Q598541, GBIF 1730978, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.