#2625 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Burnished Brass

🇳🇱 Koperuil ·Diachrysia chrysitis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

Diachrysia chrysitis , the burnished brass , is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, the Caucasus, Russia, Russian Far East and Siberia. In the south of Europe the range extends to southern Spain, southern Italy and the Balkan peninsula. It is lacking on most of the Greek Islands. In the north it extends into almost to the Arctic circle and far north Russia. In the east the range extends to the...

base stats

NL sightings 97iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,407iNaturalist 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).