#2472 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Dark Arches

🇳🇱 Graswortelvlinder ·Apamea monoglypha

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Larissa Schatz · CC BY 4.0
3. © Koos Uys · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © ivarholdtman · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Andreas Manz · CC0
6. © Natasha Murwill · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. © Ivlev-Konstantin-Sergeevith · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Apamea monoglypha , the dark arches , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is a common, sometimes abundant, European species. It is found in most of Europe except northernmost Fennoscandia and the southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Greece. The species is also found in Anatolia, Turkestan, Western Asia and Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia. In the Alps it is found up to heights...

base stats

NL sightings 332iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 22,061iNaturalist 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).