#3129 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Common Idia Moth
Idia aemula
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what is it?
The Common Idia , Powdered Snout , or Waved Tabby ( Idia aemula ) is a litter moth of the Erebidae family. It is found from Canada south to Florida and Texas and in most of Eurasia.
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
- No confirmed wild sightings in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: you'd have to travel for this one.
- 34,818 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Jacob Hübner in 1813 (213 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Common Idia Moth
- scientific name
- Idia aemula
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 0
- sightings worldwide
- 34,818
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1813 by Jacob Hübner
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 127460, Wikidata Q217700, GBIF 9407200, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.