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Yellow Underwings
Noctua
Noctua (Latin for "little owl") is a genus of moths. They have dull, cryptic forewings and often very bright hindwings. These are hidden under the forewings when the moths rest, leading to their common name of yellow underwings. They are not particularly closely related to the "true" underwing moths (Catocala) though, apart from both being Noctuoidea (and in the traditional classification, Noctuidae). They are good fliers.
19 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Large Yellow Underwing
speciesNoctua pronuba
Lesser Yellow Underwing
speciesNoctua comes
Noctua janthina
complexNoctua janthina
Noctua fimbriata
complexNoctua fimbriata
Least Yellow Underwing
speciesNoctua interjecta
Catocaline Dart
speciesNoctua acadiensis
Noctua interposita
speciesNoctua interposita
Willowherb Yellow Underwing
speciesNoctua linogrisea
Lunar Yellow Underwing
speciesNoctua orbona
Noctua chardinyi
speciesNoctua chardinyi
Noctua warreni
speciesNoctua warreni
Noctua noacki
speciesNoctua noacki
Noctua atlantica
speciesNoctua atlantica
Noctua carvalhoi
speciesNoctua carvalhoi
Noctua teixeirai
speciesNoctua teixeirai
Noctua inclyta
speciesNoctua inclyta
Noctua albidata
speciesNoctua albidata
Noctua lyra
speciesNoctua lyra
Noctua lyctorea
speciesNoctua lyctorea
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 81688.