#2598 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Middle-barred Minor
🇳🇱 Oranjegeel halmuiltje ·Oligia fasciuncula
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 Kooiweg, 6721 Bennekom, Nederland
📍 Takenhofplein, Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL
📍 Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL
📍 District14-Noordeloos, Noordeloos, South Holland, NL
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Erik Paterson · CC0
- 3. © Andreas Manz · CC0
- 4. © Andreas Manz · CC0
- 5. © Andreas Manz · CC0
- 6. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 7. Kooiweg, 6721 Bennekom, Nederland:© Chris van Swaay · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Takenhofplein, Nijmegen, Gelderland, NL:© markusgmeiner · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
- 10. District14-Noordeloos, Noordeloos, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
what is it?
Oligia fasciuncula , the middle-barred minor , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe.
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 119 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 2,724 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809 (217 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Middle-barred Minor
- Nederlands
- Oranjegeel halmuiltje
- scientific name
- Oligia fasciuncula
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- IUCN Red List
- LC · least concern
- sightings in NL
- 119
- sightings in Europe
- 2,086
- sightings worldwide
- 2,724
- GBIF records in NL
- 14,397
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1809 by Adrian Hardy Haworth
IUCN in Dutch: niet bedreigd. Blank means the sources don't say.
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 133343, Wikidata Q1663313, GBIF 1766510, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.