#2968 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Bloxworth Snout
🇳🇱 Dubbelstipsnuituil ·Hypena obsitalis
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what is it?
Hypena obsitalis , the Bloxworth snout , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Mediterranean Basin including North Africa and in the Near East and Middle East, south up to the Sahara. Further north it is a migrant which occasionally establishes.
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 2 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,574 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1813 (213 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Bloxworth Snout
- Nederlands
- Dubbelstipsnuituil
- scientific name
- Hypena obsitalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 2
- sightings in Europe
- 3,050
- sightings worldwide
- 3,574
- GBIF records in NL
- 344
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1813 by Jacob Hübner
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 342196, Wikidata Q217718, GBIF 1798802, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.