#3010 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
narrow-bordered five-spot burnet
🇳🇱 Valse vijfvlek-sint-jansvlinder ·Zygaena lonicerae
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Константин Самодуров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Philip Mark Osso · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Arūnas Juknevičius · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Anatoly Mikhaltsov · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 9. © Константин Самодуров · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Zygaena lonicerae , the narrow-bordered five-spot burnet , is a moth of the family Zygaenidae. The species was first described by Theodor Gottlieb von Scheven in 1777.
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.
- 10,106 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Theodor Gottlieb von Scheven in 1777 (249 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- narrow-bordered five-spot burnet
- Nederlands
- Valse vijfvlek-sint-jansvlinder
- scientific name
- Zygaena lonicerae
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Zygaenidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings in Europe
- 5,092
- sightings worldwide
- 10,106
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1777 by Theodor Gottlieb von Scheven
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
#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 82108, Wikidata Q1131333, GBIF 8426357, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.