#2748 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Dark Spectacle

🇳🇱 Donker brandnetelkapje ·Abrostola triplasia

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © romanvrbicek · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andreas Manz · CC0
6. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. Velp, Nederland:© 05gi02el03 · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 1797 SL Den Hoorn, North Holland, Netherlands:© Anja Cervencl · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Noordwijkerhout, Nederland:© Michel Langeveld · CC BY 4.0
10. Renkum, Nederland:© André Nagelhout · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Dark Spectacle ( Abrostola triplasia ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. Subarctic territories with an average temperature of below 6 °C are an exception. In the warmest and driest regions of the Mediterranean, the Middle East and the mountains in West and Central Asia, the species occurs only scattered or is entirely lacking.

base stats

NL sightings 54iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 3,804iNaturalist observations

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).