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#2594 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Archer's Dart

🇳🇱 Bonte worteluil ·Agrotis vestigialis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
Archer's Dart, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Archer's Dart ( Agrotis vestigialis ) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland East, through to Russia, Siberia, the Altai mountains and the Amur region.

base stats

  • NL sightings 123iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 967iNaturalist 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 123 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 967 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Archer's Dart
Nederlands
Bonte worteluil
scientific name
Agrotis vestigialis
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Noctuidae
sightings in NL
123
sightings in Europe
895
sightings worldwide
967
GBIF records in NL
11,868
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel

relatives· Noctuidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 483386, Wikidata Q948942, GBIF 1770880, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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