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#2860 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Red-line Quaker

🇳🇱 Zwartstipvlinder ·Agrochola lota

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Red-line Quaker, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Red-line Quaker ( Agrochola lota ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout the whole of Europe except Scandinavia; in Armenia, Asia Minor, and East across the Palearctic to the Altai mountains and West Siberia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 33iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 2,071iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • Spotted 33 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 2,071 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Carl Alexander Clerck in 1759 (267 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Red-line Quaker
Nederlands
Zwartstipvlinder
scientific name
Agrochola lota
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Noctuidae
sightings in NL
33
sightings in Europe
1,760
sightings worldwide
2,071
GBIF records in NL
9,774
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1759 by Carl Alexander Clerck

relatives· Noctuidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 212855, Wikidata Q1811706, GBIF 1790084, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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