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title: "Vine's Rustic"
description: "Hoplodrina ambigua — Insects & spiders. Hoplodrina ambigua, the Vine's rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/animal/vine-s-rustic
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Vine's Rustic

> Hoplodrina ambigua — Insects & spiders. Hoplodrina ambigua, the Vine's rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Hoplodrina ambigua*
- Category: `insects` (Insects & spiders)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 17903
- Wikidata: [Q1377495](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1377495)
- iNaturalist taxon: [320763](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/320763)

## Names

- en: Vine's Rustic
- de: Hellbraune Staubeule
- es: Polilla Rústica de la Vid
- fr: Ambiguë
- nl: Zuidelijke stofuil

## Countries with the most observations

GB (4769), ES (975), PT (825), DE (779), FR (670), CH (469), BG (342), AT (299), IT (288), NL (257), HU (234), UA (134)

## Summary

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).

Text: Wikipedia (en), CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoplodrina_ambigua

## Photo

![Vine's Rustic](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/vine-s-rustic/medium.jpg)

Photo: Federico Del Barba · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/108165517

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/vine-s-rustic?lang=en` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).