#2945 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Spectacle
🇳🇱 Brandnetelkapje ·Abrostola tripartita
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Татьяна · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Mick E. Talbot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Александр Корепанов · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Mick E. Talbot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Heiner Ziegler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Matthew Wilkinson · CC0
what is it?
The Spectacle ( Abrostola tripartita ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout much of the Palearctic ecozone including all Europe, Russia, Siberia Amur, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,224 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The Spectacle
- Nederlands
- Brandnetelkapje
- scientific name
- Abrostola tripartita
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 4,061
- sightings worldwide
- 5,224
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,553
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
relatives· Noctuidae
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Huismoeder
Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
🇳🇱 Gamma-uil
Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
🇳🇱 Haarbos
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205190, Wikidata Q1945688, GBIF 1767625, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.