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title: "Pale Mottled Willow Moth"
description: "Caradrina clavipalpis — Insetti e ragni. Caradrina clavipalpis, the pale mottled willow, is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/pale-mottled-willow-moth
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Pale Mottled Willow Moth

> Caradrina clavipalpis — Insetti e ragni. Caradrina clavipalpis, the pale mottled willow, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Caradrina clavipalpis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 11506
- Wikidata: [Q22102588](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q22102588)
- iNaturalist taxon: [174482](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/174482)

## Names

- en: Pale Mottled Willow Moth
- de: Heu-Staubeule
- es: Polilla del sauce pálido moteado
- fr: Noctuelle cubiculaire
- nl: Huisuil

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1785), ES (679), US (488), PT (455), BG (366), DE (334), RU (326), FR (285), IT (202), FI (143), CH (117), HU (86)

## Summary

Caradrina clavipalpis, the pale mottled willow, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica. It is found in the Palearctic realm (Europe, Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, Kuwait, Russia, Central Asia, Mongolia, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, north-west India, and Sri Lanka). It is an introduced species in North America, where it was first reported from Queens in New York City in 1993. In 2009 it was found in Rochester, New York, so it appears to be established and spreading.

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

## Photo

![Pale Mottled Willow Moth](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/pale-mottled-willow-moth/medium.jpg)

Photo: Chris Raper · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/133447648

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/pale-mottled-willow-moth?lang=it` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).