#2947 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Clay Fan-foot
🇳🇱 Gele snuituil ·Paracolax tristalis
📍 25050 Stazione Provaglio-timoline BS, Italia
📍 Център, Болгария
📍 Klagenfurt-Stadt
📍 Torino, Piemonte, IT
📍 Poysdorf, 2170, Österreich
📍 Domaszék, 6781 Hungary
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Antoine Guiguet · CC BY 4.0
- 3. © adinie · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. 25050 Stazione Provaglio-timoline BS, Italia:© Gabriele La Grasta · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. Център, Болгария:© katunchik · CC BY 4.0
- 7. Klagenfurt-Stadt:© brudermann · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. Torino, Piemonte, IT:© bferrero · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. Poysdorf, 2170, Österreich:© viperaberus · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. Domaszék, 6781 Hungary:© Lili Lajtár · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
Paracolax tristalis , the clay fan-foot , is a species of litter moths of the family Erebidae. It is found in the Palearctic ecozone.
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 7 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 3,753 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794 (232 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Clay Fan-foot
- Nederlands
- Gele snuituil
- scientific name
- Paracolax tristalis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Erebidae
- sightings in NL
- 7
- sightings in Europe
- 3,054
- sightings worldwide
- 3,753
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,123
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1794 by Johan Christian Fabricius
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 465845, Wikidata Q1945658, GBIF 4532516, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.