#2414 · 🦋 butterflies & moths

Setaceous Hebrew Character

🇳🇱 Zwarte-c-uil ·Xestia c-nigrum

🦋 Butterflies & moths 📍 in the Netherlands

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what is it?

The setaceous Hebrew character ( Xestia c-nigrum ) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae . It is found in the Palearctic realm. It is a common species throughout Europe and North Asia and Central Asia, South Asia, China, Japan and Korea. It is also found in North America, from coast to coast across Canada and the northern United States to western Alaska....

base stats

NL sightings 704iNaturalist, research grade
worldwide 31,031iNaturalist 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 704 times in the Netherlands on iNaturalist: the #30 most seen of the butterflies & moths in NL.
31,031 observations worldwide on iNaturalist.
Scientifically named in 1758 (268 years ago).