#2737 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Southern Wainscot
🇳🇱 Spitsvleugelgrasuil ·Mythimna straminea
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. © Baranyi Tamás · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Baranyi Tamás · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 7. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Anthony McDonald · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © Andrey Ponomarev · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
what is it?
Mythimna straminea , the southern wainscot , is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the western parts of the Palearctic ecozone, including Morocco, Europe, Turkey, the Caucasus, Israel and Lebanon.
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 57 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 941 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Georg Friedrich Treitschke in 1825 (201 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Southern Wainscot
- Nederlands
- Spitsvleugelgrasuil
- scientific name
- Mythimna straminea
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 57
- sightings in Europe
- 615
- sightings worldwide
- 941
- GBIF records in NL
- 1,939
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1825 by Georg Friedrich Treitschke
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#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
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Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
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Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
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Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 470715, Wikidata Q1945648, GBIF 5772205, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.