#2549 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Small Quaker
🇳🇱 Kleine voorjaarsuil ·Orthosia cruda
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what is it?
Orthosia cruda , the small Quaker , is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Turkey, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Kazakhstan, Israel, Lebanon, Cyprus and Jordan.
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 162 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 8,744 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Small Quaker
- Nederlands
- Kleine voorjaarsuil
- scientific name
- Orthosia cruda
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 162
- sightings in Europe
- 7,493
- sightings worldwide
- 8,744
- GBIF records in NL
- 0
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Ignaz Schiffermüller
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 244709, Wikidata Q1303252, GBIF 1798933, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.