#2548 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Breedbandhuismoeder ·Noctua fimbriata
9 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © ALLEMAND Guillaume · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Antoine Guiguet · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Antoine Guiguet · CC BY 4.0
- 9. © thorna · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Noctua fimbriata , the broad-bordered yellow underwing , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, North Africa, Anatolia, the Caucasus, Turkey, Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Armenia, Turkmenistan and Novosibirsk Oblast. The border of its southern range is unclear because of the similar looking species Noctua tirrenica .
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 164 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 11,985 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber in 1759 (267 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Broad-bordered Yellow Underwing
- Nederlands
- Breedbandhuismoeder
- scientific name
- Noctua fimbriata
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 164
- sightings in Europe
- 10,408
- sightings worldwide
- 11,985
- GBIF records in NL
- 18,802
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1759 by Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber
relatives· Noctuidae
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Huismoeder
Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
🇳🇱 Gamma-uil
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
🇳🇱 Haarbos
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 324707, Wikidata Q1009838, GBIF 1789745, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.