#2674 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Pale Mottled Willow Moth

🇳🇱 Huisuil ·Caradrina clavipalpis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Mark Schellekens · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
3. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
5. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
6. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
7. Scheveningen, Den Haag, Nederland:© Josephine Beijer · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. 4101 JK Culemborg, Nederland:© Bas Engels · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Fons van der Heijdenstraat, Netersel, Brabant, NL:© paravane · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 4101 JB Culemborg, Nederland:© Bas Engels · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Caradrina clavipalpis , the pale mottled willow , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica . It is found in the Palearctic realm (Europe, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, north-west India, and Sri Lanka). It is an introduced species in North America, where it was first reported from Queens in New York City in 1993. In...

base stats

NL sightings 76iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 11,911iNaturalist 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).