#2500 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Marbled White-spot
🇳🇱 Donkere marmeruil ·Deltote pygarga
📍 Tilburg, NL-NB, NL
📍 6107 Stevensweert, Nederland
📍 Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL
📍 Huis ter Heide, Netherlands
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © James Bailey · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © brudermann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Anxos Romeo Barreiro · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. Tilburg, NL-NB, NL:© Paul Cools · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. 6107 Stevensweert, Nederland:© Gerben ter Haar · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Schiermonnikoog National Park, Schiermonnikoog, Provinz Friesland, NL:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Huis ter Heide, Netherlands:© Joren van Schie · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Protodeltote pygarga , the marbled white spot , is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.
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 237 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 11,551 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
fact sheet
- English
- Marbled White-spot
- Nederlands
- Donkere marmeruil
- scientific name
- Deltote pygarga
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 237
- sightings in Europe
- 10,169
- sightings worldwide
- 11,551
- GBIF records in NL
- 36,371
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
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👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
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👀 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
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👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 603136, Wikidata Q18466383, GBIF 4532890, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.