---
title: "The Snout"
description: "Hypena proboscidalis — Insetos e aranhas. Hypena proboscidalis, the snout, is a moth of the family Erebidae."
canonical: https://animalchecklist.com/pt/animal/the-snout
last_updated: 2026-09-20
---

# The Snout

> Hypena proboscidalis — Insetos e aranhas. Hypena proboscidalis, the snout, is a moth of the family Erebidae.

- Scientific name: *Hypena proboscidalis*
- Category: `insects` (Insetos e aranhas)
- Habitats: unknown
- iNaturalist observations: 16267
- Wikidata: [Q217603](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q217603)
- iNaturalist taxon: [202239](https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/202239)

## Names

- en: The Snout
- de: Nessel-Schnabeleule
- fr: Noctuelle à museau
- nl: Bruine snuituil
- pl: Rozszczepka śnicianka

## Countries with the most observations

GB (3706), DE (2454), RU (1270), FR (1176), AT (905), PL (848), DK (727), ES (509), NL (370), CZ (368), FI (331), CH (320)

## Summary

Hypena proboscidalis, the snout, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

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

## Photo

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

Photo: Patrick Le Mao · CC0 · inaturalist — https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/224051881

## Machine access

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