#2440 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Flame Shoulder Moth

🇳🇱 Haarbos ·Ochropleura plecta

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Nigel Voaden · CC BY 4.0
4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. 3992 SK Houten, Nederland:© Marsel · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 9968 Pieterburen, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
8. Pieterburen, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0
9. Schiermonnikoog, Strandresort, 9166 NE Schiermonnikoog, Niederlande:© Samuel Büttler · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. Pieterburen, Netherlands:© Michael Bakker Paiva · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The flame shoulder ( Ochropleura plecta ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout the Palearctic from Ireland in the west to Siberia then Korea and Japan in the east.

base stats

NL sightings 455iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,500iNaturalist 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).