#2765 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Rosy Rustic
🇳🇱 Aardappelstengelboorder ·Hydraecia micacea
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © brendanboyd · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Baranyi Tamás · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 8. © Tatyana Zarubo · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Ari Soikkeli · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Hydraecia micacea , the rosy rustic , is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found across the Palearctic ecozone from Ireland to Siberia (except the southern areas). It reaches Japan and is introduced to eastern USA, Quebec and Ottawa.
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 51 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,422 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1789 (237 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Rosy Rustic
- Nederlands
- Aardappelstengelboorder
- scientific name
- Hydraecia micacea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 51
- sightings in Europe
- 3,982
- sightings worldwide
- 5,422
- GBIF records in NL
- 9,372
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1789 by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper
relatives· Noctuidae
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Huismoeder
Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
🇳🇱 Gamma-uil
Autographa gamma
👀 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
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 221586, Wikidata Q949657, GBIF 1796678, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.