#3060 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Crepuscular Burnet
🇳🇱 Oogvlek-sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena carniolica
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what is it?
Zygaena carniolica , the narrow-bordered five-spot burnet , is a member of the Zygaenidae family.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 4,179 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Crepuscular Burnet
- Nederlands
- Oogvlek-sint-jansvlinder
- scientific name
- Zygaena carniolica
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Zygaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 3,651
- sightings worldwide
- 4,179
- GBIF records in NL
- 4
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1763 by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli
relatives· Zygaenidae
#2441 📷 10Six-spot Burnet
🇳🇱 Sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena filipendulae
👀 454 in NL
#2876 📷 10Green Forester Moth
🇳🇱 Metaalvlinder
Adscita statices
👀 30 in NL
#2959 📷 10Five-spot Burnet
🇳🇱 Vijfvlek-sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena trifolii
👀 4 in NL
#3010 📷 10narrow-bordered five-spot burnet
🇳🇱 Valse vijfvlek-sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena lonicerae
🌍 10.1k seen
#3018 📷 10Transalpine burnet moth
🇳🇱 Zuidelijke sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena transalpina
LC 🌍 8.4k seen
#3031 📷 10Slender Scotch Burnet
🇳🇱 Dubbelvlek-sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena loti
🌍 6.1k seen
#3055 📷 10Chalk Burnet
Zygaena fausta
🌍 4.4k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62094, Wikidata Q997409, GBIF 7903078, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.