#2791 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

True Lover's Knot

🇳🇱 Granietuil ·Lycophotia porphyrea

LCleast concern 🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The true lover's knot ( Lycophotia porphyrea ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the west Palearctic in a wide band through northern, central and eastern Europe and Russia (up to the Ural Mountains). In the south it is spread through northern Spain and northern Portugal, northern Italy, Macedonia, Bulgaria, and northern Greece . In Europe it is found wherever its food plants grow. It is traditionally thought of as a species typical...

base stats

NL sightings 45iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 2,768iNaturalist observations
threat LCleast concern

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).