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title: "Large Yellow Underwing"
description: "Noctua pronuba — Insetti e ragni. The large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/large-yellow-underwing
last_updated: 2026-09-20
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# Large Yellow Underwing

> Noctua pronuba — Insetti e ragni. The large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Noctua pronuba*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Prati e campi)
- iNaturalist observations: 126741
- Wikidata: [Q1563597](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1563597)
- iNaturalist taxon: [81687](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/81687)

## Names

- en: Large Yellow Underwing
- de: Hausmutter
- es: Noctuido de la acedera
- fr: Triphène fiancée
- nl: Huismoeder
- pl: Rolnica tasiemka

## Countries with the most observations

GB (27113), US (23471), CA (14010), DE (7060), DK (4536), FR (3821), NL (3005), ES (2464), AT (2066), PT (1832), IT (1564), SE (1474)

## Summary

The large yellow underwing (Noctua pronuba) is a moth, the type species for the family Noctuidae. It is an abundant species throughout the Palearctic realm, one of the most common and most familiar moths of the region. In some years the species is highly migratory with large numbers appearing suddenly in marginal parts of the range.
It is present in Europe, North Africa, Canary Islands, Middle East, Turkey, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, northwest India, Russia, Novosibirsk Oblast, Caucasus, Transcaucasia and Central Asia. It was introduced into North America at Nova Scotia. Since then it has increased its range considerably…

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

## Photo

![Large Yellow Underwing](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/large-yellow-underwing/medium.jpg)

Photo: Kent P. McFarland · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/179526577

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/large-yellow-underwing?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).