#2502 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Uncertain
🇳🇱 Gewone stofuil ·Hoplodrina octogenaria
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what is it?
Hoplodrina octogenaria , the uncertain , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone (Europe, Russia, Turkey, Transcaucasia, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Altai, north Mongolia, North Korea, north China).
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 236 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 12,524 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1781 (245 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The Uncertain
- Nederlands
- Gewone stofuil
- scientific name
- Hoplodrina octogenaria
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 236
- sightings in Europe
- 3,399
- sightings worldwide
- 12,524
- GBIF records in NL
- 18,799
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1781 by Johann August Ephraim Goeze
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#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 360302, Wikidata Q1940434, GBIF 4534290, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.