#3037 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Porter's Rustic

🇳🇱 Vale stofuil ·Proxenus hospes

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in Europe, not in NL

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

1. © Paolo Mazzei · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Ferran Turmo Gort · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. Provincia di Ferrara, Italia:© Andrea Grossi · CC BY-NC 4.0
4. Allerheiligen bei Wildon, Österreich:© sabine-g · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. Province of Syracuse, Italy:© Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. Provincia di Ferrara, Italia:© Andrea Grossi · CC BY-NC 4.0
7. 4292 Dobri Dol, Bulgaria:© SteveM4560 · CC BY 4.0
8. Via Don Giuseppe Bonizzato, Mozzecane, Veneto, IT:© Andrea Angiari · CC BY-NC 4.0
9. Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, IT:© Valentina · CC BY-NC 4.0
10. 84430 Mondragon, Frankreich:© Francis Birlenbach · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Athetis hospes , Porter's rustic , is a moth of the family Noctuidae which was described by Freyer in 1835. It is found in Spain, southern France, Italy, on the Balkan Peninsula, Crete, Turkey and northern Iran. The species seems to be expanding its range in north-western Europe with records from Great Britain and the Netherlands.

base stats

NL sightings 0iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 5,780iNaturalist 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).