#2832 · 🦋 butterflies & moths
Dotted Clay
🇳🇱 Bruine zwartstipuil ·Xestia baja
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what is it?
Xestia baja , the dotted clay , is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Europe, Turkey, northern Iran, Transcaucasia, the Caucasus, central Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, Tibet, China, Korea 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 36 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist.
- 5,241 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
- Scientifically named by Michael Denis in 1775 (251 years ago).
fact sheet
- English
- Dotted Clay
- Nederlands
- Bruine zwartstipuil
- scientific name
- Xestia baja
- class
- Insecta
- order
- Lepidoptera
- family
- Noctuidae
- sightings in NL
- 36
- sightings in Europe
- 4,224
- sightings worldwide
- 5,241
- GBIF records in NL
- 2,789
- weight
- —
- length
- —
- lifespan
- —
- named
- 1775 by Michael Denis
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
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Ochropleura plecta
👀 455 in NL
Sources: iNaturalist taxon 325243, Wikidata Q804062, GBIF 5112291, Wikipedia (EN), Wikipedia (NL). Intro text from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-24.