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Green Cloverworm Moth

Hypena scabra

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 outside Europe
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
  1. 1. © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  2. 2. © Melinda Fawver · CC BY-NC 4.0
  3. 3. © matthew_wills · CC BY-NC 4.0
  4. 4. © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  5. 5. © Fran Meyerson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  6. 6. © Maya · CC BY-NC 4.0
  7. 7. © Fran Meyerson · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
  8. 8. © David Reed · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
  9. 9. © Kent Miller · CC BY-ND 4.0
  10. 10. © Larry Clarfeld · CC BY-NC 4.0
Green Cloverworm Moth, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Royal Tyler · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

what is it?

The Green Cloverworm or Black Snout ( Hypena scabra ) is a moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from Canada south to Florida and Texas. It has also been reported from Great Britain.

base stats

  • NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 61,639iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

  • No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
  • 61,639 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
  • Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798 (228 years ago).

fact sheet

English
Green Cloverworm Moth
scientific name
Hypena scabra
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Erebidae
sightings in NL
0
sightings worldwide
61,639
GBIF records in NL
0
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—
named
1798 by Johan Christian Fabricius

relatives· Erebidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 118513, Wikidata Q28817375, GBIF 9579730, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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