#2878 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Small Ranunculus

🇳🇱 Kompassla-uil ·Hecatera dysodea

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Céline · CC BY 4.0
3. © bar-bara · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Sunchild57 Photography, Catching Up! · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
5. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
6. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
7. © Luigi Andena · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

The Small Ranunculus (Hecatera dysodea) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, primarily in Central Europe and Southern Europe and from Algeria and Morocco up to Turkestan. It is an introduced species in North America, where it was first found in Utah in 1998 and Oregon in 2005.

base stats

NL sightings 30iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,384iNaturalist 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).