#2663 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Orache Moth
🇳🇱 Meldevlinder ·Trachea atriplicis
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what is it?
The Orache Moth (Trachea atriplicis) is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in all of Europe, east to the Pacific Ocean and Japan.
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 81 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 7,221 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Orache Moth
- Nederlands
- Meldevlinder
- scientific name
- Trachea atriplicis
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 81
- sightings in Europe
- 6,391
- sightings worldwide
- 7,221
- GBIF records in NL
- 10,867
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1758
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Sources: iNaturalist taxon 125049, Wikidata Q1919239, GBIF 1760593, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.