#2612 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Mottled Rustic

🇳🇱 Morpheusstofuil ·Caradrina morpheus

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The Mottled Rustic (Caradrina morpheus) is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found across the Palearctic from northern Europe to Siberia, Amur and Korea. Also in Armenia, Turkestan, It was accidentally introduced on both the east and west coasts of Canada and is so far reported in the east from New Brunswick to Ontario, and in the west from British Columbia.

base stats

NL sightings 108iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,131iNaturalist 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).