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title: "Cloaked Minor"
description: "Mesoligia furuncula — Insetos e aranhas. Mesoligia furuncula, the cloaked minor, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/cloaked-minor
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# Cloaked Minor

> Mesoligia furuncula — Insetos e aranhas. Mesoligia furuncula, the cloaked minor, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea.

- Scientific name: *Mesoligia furuncula*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 9243
- Wikidata: [Q1945928](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1945928)
- iNaturalist taxon: [325591](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/325591)

## Names

- en: Cloaked Minor
- de: Trockenrasen-Halmeulchen
- fr: Noctuelle furoncule
- nl: Zandhalmuiltje

## Countries with the most observations

GB (1502), DE (1434), FR (1077), DK (432), NL (418), RU (408), ES (343), PL (266), AT (258), FI (224), HU (193), CH (180)

## Summary

Mesoligia furuncula, the cloaked minor, is a moth of the family Noctuoidea. It is found in the Palearctic realm (Europe, northwest Africa, Russia, Siberia, Japan, north Iran, Afghanistan, and China (Qinghai and Shaanxi).

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

## Photo

![Cloaked Minor](https://animalchecklist.com/img/animals/cloaked-minor/medium.jpg)

Photo: Andreas Manz · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/91025006

## Machine access

`GET https://animalchecklist.com/api/v1/animals/cloaked-minor?lang=pt` — see [openapi.json](https://animalchecklist.com/openapi.json).