#3110 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Elegant Grass-veneer

Microcrambus elegans

7 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences

1. © skitterbug · CC BY 4.0
2. © Ashley M Bradford · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Anna Bennett · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Jason M Crockwell · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
5. © joannerusso · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Patrick Hanly · CC BY 4.0
7. © Anna Bennett · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Microcrambus elegans , the elegant grass-veneer moth , is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found from Ontario, Quebec and Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to Kansas and Illinois.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 41,937iNaturalist 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.
41,937 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860 (166 years ago).