#2722 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Brown Rustic

🇳🇱 Randvlekuil ·Rusina ferruginea

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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

1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
2. © Павел Несмеянов · CC BY-NC 4.0
3. © Thomas Brooks · CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
4. © Degtyarev Nikolai Ivanovich · CC BY-NC 4.0
5. © diversitydave · CC BY-NC 4.0
6. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
7. © Luca Boscain · CC BY-NC 4.0
8. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0

what is it?

The Brown Rustic ( Rusina ferruginea ) is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Europe. then East across the Palearctic to the Sayan Mountains in Central Asia.

base stats

NL sightings 59iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 4,257iNaturalist 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 59 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
4,257 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1785 (241 years ago).