#2911 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Straw Underwing
🇳🇱 Geelvleugeluil ·Thalpophila matura
10 photos from iNaturalist (Creative Commons) · credits & licences
- 1. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 2. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 3. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 4. © Michał Brzeziński · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 5. © Mishanook · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 6. © Raoul Gerend · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 7. © Drepanostoma · CC BY 4.0
- 8. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
- 9. © Gaell Mainguy · CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- 10. © Martin Grimm · CC BY-NC 4.0
what is it?
The straw underwing ( Thalpophila matura ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from North Africa west through South Europe and Central Europe. In the north it is in parts of Ireland, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Estonia. Further east the range stretches from southern Russia and Asia minor to the Caucasus.
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 25 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 9,726 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766 (260 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Straw Underwing
- Nederlands
- Geelvleugeluil
- scientific name
- Thalpophila matura
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 25
- sightings in Europe
- 8,633
- sightings worldwide
- 9,726
- GBIF records in NL
- 4,699
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1766 by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
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 479402, Wikidata Q914233, GBIF 5110213, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.