#2441 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Six-spot Burnet
🇳🇱 Sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena filipendulae
📍 Meijendel and Berkheide, Wassenaar, South Holland, NL
📍 Lexmond, Utrecht, NL
📍 Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, NL
📍 Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland
📍 Lexmond, Utrecht, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michel Renou · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © James Senn · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Luciano 95 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 4. © Francisco Welter-Schultes · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Luciano 95 · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 6. Meijendel and Berkheide, Wassenaar, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Lexmond, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 8. Egmond-Binnen, Noord-Holland, NL:© wishauptr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Amsterdam Nieuw-West, Amsterdam, Nederland:© peterschiphof · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Lexmond, Utrecht, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
The six-spot burnet ( Zygaena filipendulae ) is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae.
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 454 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 33,849 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Six-spot Burnet
- Nederlands
- Sint-jansvlinder
- scientific name
- Zygaena filipendulae
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Zygaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 454
- sightings in Europe
- 23,411
- sightings worldwide
- 33,849
- GBIF records in NL
- 39,235
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
relatives· Zygaenidae
#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
#3060 📷 9Crepuscular Burnet
🇳🇱 Oogvlek-sint-jansvlinder
Zygaena carniolica
🌍 4.2k seen
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 62083, Wikidata Q161497, GBIF 5107219, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.