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title: "Polilla de las sombras angulares"
description: "Phlogophora meticulosa — Insectos y arañas. The angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/es/animal/angle-shades
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Polilla de las sombras angulares

> Phlogophora meticulosa — Insectos y arañas. The angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Phlogophora meticulosa*
- Category: `insects` (Insectos y arañas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 21819
- Wikidata: [Q768921](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q768921)
- iNaturalist taxon: [205151](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205151)

## Names

- en: Angle Shades
- de: Achateule
- es: Polilla de las sombras angulares
- fr: Méticuleuse
- nl: Agaatvlinder
- pl: Krokiewka lękliwica

## Countries with the most observations

GB (6173), DE (1943), FR (1541), AT (1047), DK (1002), IT (836), ES (565), CH (456), NL (399), PL (345), BE (303), CZ (274)

## Summary

The angle shades (Phlogophora meticulosa) 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 distributed throughout Europe as far east as the Urals and also in the Azores, in Algeria, and in Asia Minor, Armenia, and Syria. It is a migratory species.

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

## Photo

![Polilla de las sombras angulares](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/angle-shades/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andreas Manz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/44757983

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/angle-shades?lang=es` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).