#2431 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Straw Dot

🇳🇱 Stro-uiltje ·Rivula sericealis

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Manuel Valdueza · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
3. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
4. © Mick Talbot · CC BY 4.0
5. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © naturalhistoryman · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
7. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
8. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
9. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0
10. Graafland, Groot-Ammers, South Holland, NL:© no rights reserved · CC0

what is it?

Rivula sericealis , the straw dot , is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Europe including the Iberian Peninsula and southern Fennoscandia and south to North Africa. In an easterly direction, the species occurs across the Palearctic to the Pacific Ocean and Japan. The species closely resembles Evergestis forficalis .

base stats

NL sightings 524iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 18,846iNaturalist 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).

fun facts

Spotted 524 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #47 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
18,846 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1763 (263 years ago).