#2685 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
The Brick
🇳🇱 Bruine herfstuil ·Sunira circellaris
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Nikolai Vladimirov · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Ewa Rauner-Bułczyńska · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Tony Morris · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Ilia Ustyantsev · CC BY-SA 4.0
- 7. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 8. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Donald Hobern · CC BY 4.0
- 10. © 103917170835602529469 · 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
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
#2388 📷 7Large Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Huismoeder
Noctua pronuba
👀 3.2k in NL
#2396 📷 10Silver Υ
🇳🇱 Gamma-uil
Autographa gamma
👀 1.7k in NL
#2414 📷 10Setaceous Hebrew Character
🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil
Xestia c-nigrum
👀 704 in NL
#2423 📷 10Flounced Rustic
🇳🇱 Gewone grasuil
Luperina testacea
👀 605 in NL
#2428 📷 10Lesser Yellow Underwing
🇳🇱 Volgeling
Noctua comes
👀 578 in NL
#2429 📷 9Knot Grass Moth
🇳🇱 Zuringuil
Acronicta rumicis
👀 538 in NL
#2439 📷 10Square-spot Rustic
🇳🇱 Vierkantvlekuil
Xestia xanthographa
👀 483 in NL
#2440 📷 10Flame Shoulder Moth
🇳🇱 Haarbos
Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 1419331, Wikipedia (EN). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.
