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The Brick

🇳🇱 Bruine herfstuil ·Sunira circellaris

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands
The Brick, photo 1 of 10
1/10 © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0

what is it?

Agrochola circellaris , or The Brick , is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is distributed throughout most of Europe, Asia Minor and Armenia.

base stats

  • NL sightings 71iNaturalist, research grade
  • worldwide 3,988iNaturalist 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 71 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
  • 3,988 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.

fact sheet

English
The Brick
Nederlands
Bruine herfstuil
scientific name
Sunira circellaris
class
Insecta
order
Lepidoptera
family
Noctuidae
sightings in NL
71
sightings in Europe
3,399
sightings worldwide
3,988
weight
—
length
—
lifespan
—

relatives· Noctuidae

Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1419331, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.

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