#2528 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Red Underwing
🇳🇱 Rood weeskind ·Catocala nupta
🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
📍 Noord-Holland, NL
📍 9717 BB Groningen, Netherlands
📍 De Landerijen, Drachten, Friesland, NL
📍 De Marne, NL-GR, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Pekka Malinen · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- 2. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Per Hoffmann Olsen · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Federico Salvini · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Nicolas Schwab · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Noord-Holland, NL:© dgcurrywheel · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 9717 BB Groningen, Netherlands:© Mick Elliot · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. De Landerijen, Drachten, Friesland, NL:© datedevries · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. De Marne, NL-GR, NL:© Sealcentre Pieterburen · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The red underwing ( Catocala nupta ) is a moth of the Erebidae family.
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 183 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,499 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1767 (259 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Red Underwing
- Nederlands
- Rood weeskind
- scientific name
- Catocala nupta
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 183
- sightings in Europe
- 7,126
- sightings worldwide
- 9,499
- GBIF records in NL
- 19,458
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1767
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👀 524 in NL
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👀 523 in NL
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 116385, Wikidata Q581524, GBIF 1797258, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.