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title: "Dark Arches"
description: "Apamea monoglypha — Owady i pająki. Apamea monoglypha, the dark arches, is a moth of the family Noctuidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pl/animal/dark-arches
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Dark Arches

> Apamea monoglypha — Owady i pająki. Apamea monoglypha, the dark arches, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

- Scientific name: *Apamea monoglypha*
- Category: `insects` (Owady i pająki)
- Habitats: `grassland` (Łąki i pola), `mountains` (Góry)
- iNaturalist observations: 21586
- Wikidata: [Q475705](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q475705)
- iNaturalist taxon: [205753](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/205753)

## Names

- en: Dark Arches
- de: Große Grasbüscheleule
- fr: Noctuelle radicée
- nl: Graswortelvlinder

## Countries with the most observations

GB (10004), DE (1589), DK (1177), FR (691), AT (676), CH (590), RU (582), IT (367), NL (331), SE (300), ES (286), PL (261)

## Summary

Apamea monoglypha, the dark arches, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is a common, sometimes abundant, European species. It is found in most of Europe except northernmost Fennoscandia and the southern parts of the Iberian Peninsula and Greece. The species is also found in Anatolia, Turkestan, Western Asia and Central Asia, Siberia and Mongolia. In the Alps it is found up to heights of 2,500 meters. The smaller subspecies sardoa is found on Sardinia and Corsica.
This species has a wingspan of 46 to 54 mm, the forewings varying from pale greyish…

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

## Photo

![Dark Arches](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/dark-arches/medium.jpg)

Photo: Stephen James McWilliam · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/128298585

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/dark-arches?lang=pl` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).