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title: "The Chestnut"
description: "Conistra vaccinii — Insetti e ragni. Conistra vaccinii, the chestnut, is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/it/animal/the-chestnut
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# The Chestnut

> Conistra vaccinii — Insetti e ragni. Conistra vaccinii, the chestnut, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Conistra vaccinii*
- Category: `insects` (Insetti e ragni)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 8323
- Wikidata: [Q1038759](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1038759)
- iNaturalist taxon: [311616](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/311616)

## Names

- en: The Chestnut
- de: Heidelbeer-Wintereule
- fr: Orrhodie de l'Airelle
- nl: Bosbesuil

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1286), DE (1152), AT (697), RU (685), FR (459), FI (398), CH (338), HU (295), CZ (234), DK (212), NL (152), ES (150)

## Summary

Conistra vaccinii, the chestnut, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1761. It is distributed throughout Europe, North Africa and east through the Palearctic to Siberia.

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

## Photo

![The Chestnut](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/the-chestnut/medium.jpg)

Photo: Boza48 · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/295042767

## Machine access

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