#2503 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Flame
🇳🇱 Houtspaander ·Axylia putris
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande
📍 Bennekom, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
📍 4101 JK Culemborg, Nederland
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 4. © Anxos Romeo Barreiro · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Jaro Schacht · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. 4101 JK Culemborg, Nederland:© Bas Engels · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The flame ( Axylia putris ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout Europe then east across the Palearctic to Armenia, western Siberia and Amur, Korea and Japan. The range extends into northern India.
base stats
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 228 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 11,133 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1761 (265 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The Flame
- Nederlands
- Houtspaander
- scientific name
- Axylia putris
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 228
- sightings in Europe
- 9,250
- sightings worldwide
- 11,133
- GBIF records in NL
- 41,217
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1761
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#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
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Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
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Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
🇳🇱 Haarbos
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 322128, Wikidata Q301172, GBIF 1761438, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.