#2962 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Black Rustic

🇳🇱 Zwarte witvleugeluil ·Aporophyla nigra

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © sarah-hall · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Chirpan, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
7. 4292 Dobri Dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
8. 8 Millcroft Road, Woolton, Liverpool, Merseyside, UK:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. 30510 Générac, France:© Pierre-Henri Fabre · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. England, GB:© richardjaybee · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Black Rustic ( Aporophyla nigra ) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from North Africa, through southern and central Europe to Anatolia, in the north it is found up to Scotland and southern Norway. It is also found in the Caucasus, in Israel and Lebanon.

base stats

NL sightings 3iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,557iNaturalist 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).