#2689 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Buttoned Snout
🇳🇱 Hopsnuituil ·Hypena rostralis
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Edmundas Greimas · CC BY 4.0
- 2. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
- 6. © Edmundas Greimas · CC BY 4.0
- 7. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Lola Smirnova · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Ryzhkov Oleg · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The Buttoned Snout (Hypena rostralis) is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in Europe.
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 70 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,468 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Buttoned Snout
- Nederlands
- Hopsnuituil
- scientific name
- Hypena rostralis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 70
- sightings in Europe
- 6,758
- sightings worldwide
- 7,468
- GBIF records in NL
- 9,548
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 128611, Wikidata Q217692, GBIF 1798594, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.