#2551 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The White-Point
🇳🇱 Witstipgrasuil ·Mythimna albipuncta
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what is it?
Mythimna albipuncta , the white-point , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe and one subspecies is found in Tunisia. It is also found in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Iran.
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 158 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 16,092 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- The White-Point
- Nederlands
- Witstipgrasuil
- scientific name
- Mythimna albipuncta
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 158
- sightings in Europe
- 14,332
- sightings worldwide
- 16,092
- GBIF records in NL
- 20,905
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Ignaz Schiffermüller
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 320878, Wikidata Q1306035, GBIF 5772178, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.