What Animal Lives Where

Where has the Setaceous Hebrew Character been recorded?

Xestia c-nigrum occurrence evidence comes from 35,602 records in 39 countries and territories, from 1800 to 2026. Most records come from Sweden.

Setaceous Hebrew Character
Setaceous Hebrew Character — Photo (display-sized rendition) via Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
InsectaLepidopteraNoctuidaeXestia

Observation evidence passport

Evidence found

35,602 records across 39 countries and territories, 1800–2026.

Xestia c-nigrum · GBIF taxon key 5714973

Source coverage

CC0 GBIF Animalia occurrence facets, including country, month and year summaries.

Refreshed 2026-09-20. Inspect the taxon on GBIF.

What this means

The species has been recorded in the listed places in the stated source universe. Peak month: August.

6 months reach at least 10% of the peak facet count.

What this does not mean

repeated describes the record pattern, not a formal range, residency, abundance or conservation assessment.

A single record remains evidence of a recording, not proof that a population lives there.

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When it is recorded

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Peak month: August. Records cluster in the months an animal is present and being looked for, so a summer peak can reflect observer effort as much as the animal.

Records over time

18002026

Recording effort has risen steeply almost everywhere since the 1990s, so a rising line usually shows more observers rather than more animals.

Where Setaceous Hebrew Character has been recorded

The countries below show where occurrence evidence exists for Setaceous Hebrew Character. They do not define a complete habitat range: survey effort differs by place, and historical or one-off records can appear alongside repeated presence.

PlaceRecordsShare
Sweden 19,113
Austria 7,707
United Kingdom 2,181
Luxembourg 1,390
Belgium 809
United States 789
France 764
Germany 696
Romania 695
Canada 351
South Korea 317
Italy 285
Netherlands 106
Switzerland 101
Czechia 69
Denmark 48
Finland 25
Ireland 19
Portugal 19
Spain 13
Azerbaijan 11
Bulgaria 10
Liechtenstein 10
Hungary 9
Türkiye 8
Russia 7
Poland 6
Åland Islands 4
Croatia 4
Kazakhstan 4
Lithuania 4
Uzbekistan 4
Estonia 3
Slovakia 3
Norway 2
Philippines 2
Slovenia 2
Ukraine 2
Georgia 1

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Record pattern: repeated
Repeated records across many years and months. This is inferred from how many years and months the animal appears in, not from a range map — treat it as evidence, not a formal assessment.