#2541 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Burnet Companion
🇳🇱 Bruine daguil ·Euclidia glyphica
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what is it?
The burnet companion moth ( Euclidia glyphica ) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland in the west to Mongolia and Siberia in the east, south to the Mediterranean and North Africa.
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 168 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 21,588 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Burnet Companion
- Nederlands
- Bruine daguil
- scientific name
- Euclidia glyphica
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 168
- sightings in Europe
- 20,127
- sightings worldwide
- 21,588
- GBIF records in NL
- 16,751
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 132888, Wikidata Q547504, GBIF 1798408, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.