---
title: "Bont schaapje"
description: "Acronicta aceris — Insecten en spinnen. The sycamore (Acronicta aceris) is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/sycamore-moth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Bont schaapje

> Acronicta aceris — Insecten en spinnen. The sycamore (Acronicta aceris) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Acronicta aceris*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9399
- Wikidata: [Q402422](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q402422)
- iNaturalist taxon: [135282](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/135282)

## Names

- en: Sycamore Moth
- de: Ahorn-Rindeneule
- fr: Noctuelle de l'érable
- it: Acronicta (Acronicta) aceris
- nl: Bont schaapje
- pl: Wieczernica klonówka

## Countries with the most observations

DK (1461), DE (1052), GB (1005), AT (850), FR (710), RU (540), CZ (291), IT (291), SE (282), ES (261), PL (224), FI (219)

## Summary

The sycamore (Acronicta aceris) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed through most of Europe, from central England south to Morocco. To the east it is found from the Near East and Middle East to western Asia.
The forewings of this species are pale to dark grey with rather indistinct markings apart from a thin black basal streak. The hindwings are white, sometimes with dark streaks at the margin. The wingspan is 40–45 mm.

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sycamore_(moth)

## Photo

![Bont schaapje](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/sycamore-moth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Morten Heegaard · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/178957905

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/sycamore-moth?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).