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title: "Grateful Midget"
description: "Elaphria grata — Insecten en spinnen. Elaphria grata, the grateful midget moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/nl/animal/grateful-midget
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Grateful Midget

> Elaphria grata — Insecten en spinnen. Elaphria grata, the grateful midget moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Elaphria grata*
- Category: `insects` (Insecten en spinnen)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 10421
- Wikidata: [Q13511558](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q13511558)
- iNaturalist taxon: [146713](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/146713)

## Names

- en: Grateful Midget

## Countries with the most observations

US (8095), CA (262), CR (10), MX (9)

## Summary

Elaphria grata, the grateful midget moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Ontario, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, West Virginia and 
Wisconsin.
The wingspan is 20–26 mm. Adults are on wing from April to October in multiple generations per year.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on forbs, Quercus species and dead…

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

## Photo

![Grateful Midget](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/grateful-midget/medium.jpg)

Photo: Brighton Lee · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/373712589

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/grateful-midget?lang=nl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).