#2702 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Smoky Wainscot

🇳🇱 Stompvleugelgrasuil ·Mythimna impura

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Andreas Bennetsen Boe · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. © Thomas Guggemoos · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Björn S... · CC BY-SA 4.0
9. © Annika Lindqvist · CC BY 4.0
10. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

Mythimna impura , the smoky wainscot , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1808. It is distributed throughout most of the Palearctic realm from Ireland in the west of Europe east to the Caucasus, Turkey, Syria, Kazakhstan, Russia, Siberia, Mongolia, then Japan. In Europe it is found from the Arctic Circle to Spain and Italy (including Sicily) in the south, as well as in the northern regions of...

base stats

NL sightings 65iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 6,100iNaturalist 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).