#2451 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Angle Shades
🇳🇱 Agaatvlinder ·Phlogophora meticulosa
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Emanuele Santarelli · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 3. © Nathan Jackson · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Stephen Moores · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © jfb22 · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Jakob Fahr · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © heupferd · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 10. © Anna Nikolenko · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The angle shades ( Phlogophora meticulosa ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is distributed throughout Europe as far east as the Urals and also in the Azores, in Algeria, and in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Syria. It is strongly migratory.
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 404 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 22,479 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Angle Shades
- Nederlands
- Agaatvlinder
- scientific name
- Phlogophora meticulosa
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 404
- sightings in Europe
- 17,250
- sightings worldwide
- 22,479
- GBIF records in NL
- 49,764
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 205151, Wikidata Q768921, GBIF 1782560, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.