Hoplodrina ambigua
In 3 days ~20% in a week ~40%
Hoplodrina ambigua, the Vine's rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the western Palearctic realm (central Europe, south Europe North Africa, Russia to Urals, south-west Siberia, Tuva, Altai Mountains, Tajikistan, Turkestan and in the Near East – Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan).
The wingspan is 32–34 mm. The length of the forewings is 13–15 mm. Forewing greyish ochreous, sometimes uniformly washed with brownish; the lines and stigmata dark grey, the latter with pale annuli; submarginal line luteous preceded by a dark grey shade; hindwing dirty pale grey in male, darker in female, and darker in both sexes in the brown suffused forms: - the form sericea Speyer, from Holland and Germany, is described as having narrower silky grey forewings; -in [now full species levis Stgr.], from W. Turkestan and Asia Minor, the yellower ochreous tint is predominant and the dark markings are conspicuous but in some pale examples from Segovia, Spain- ab. ochrea ab. nov. [Warren] the dark markings tend to become effaced, the head, thorax, and forewings being pale yellow ochreous - amurensis Stgr. indicates small dark examples from Ussuri... Wikipedia →
| # | Park | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sierra Nevada National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 2 | Bavarian Forest National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 3 | Cévennes National Park | 🇫🇷 France | |
| 4 | Wadden Sea National Park | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 5 | Sierra de Guadarrama National Park | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 6 | Pyrénées National Park | 🇫🇷 France |
| # | City | Country | Daily sighting probability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Liverpool | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 2 | London | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 3 | Birmingham | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 4 | Porto | 🇵🇹 Portugal | |
| 5 | Rome | 🇮🇹 Italy | |
| 6 | Madrid | 🇪🇸 Spain | |
| 7 | Essen | 🇩🇪 Germany | |
| 8 | Kyiv | 🇺🇦 Ukraine | |
| 9 | Manchester | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom | |
| 10 | Leeds | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
With luck
About 10% of wildlife watchers report a Vine's Rustic sighting in Madrid on a given day, based on 42 verified sightings from GBIF citizen-science data. It is the 115th most-seen of the 457 insects we can rate there. Over three days the chance rises to about 20%, and over a week to about 40%, if each day is a fresh chance.
May–June and September–October
In those months about 10% of wildlife watchers report a Vine's Rustic in Madrid on a given day, against under 5% in July–August and November–April, the lowest months.
Between 9 pm and midnight
Across all the parks we cover, that three-hour window holds the most Vine's Rustic sightings with a recorded time, and about 6 in 10 of them come between 6 pm and 6 am: it is seen both by day and at night.
6th of 18
Of the 18 cities where we can rate Vine's Rustic sightings, Madrid ranks 6th at about 10%. The best odds are in Liverpool (United Kingdom, about 20%), London (United Kingdom, about 20%) and Birmingham (United Kingdom, about 10%).
Same family: Noctuidae
The closest relatives of the Vine's Rustic that you can see in Madrid (family Noctuidae, Cutworm Moths and Allies) are Large Yellow Underwing (about 10%), Silver Υ (about 10%) and Turnip Moth (about 10%), with each one's daily chance of a sighting.
GBIF citizen-science records
It is estimated from how often the Vine's Rustic is recorded against all the insects logged in Madrid (42 verified sightings), calibrated against known sighting rates. Figures are rounded to the nearest 10% because citizen-science data supports honest approximations, not decimals, and months with records from fewer than five people show "—". How it works.
