Drymonia ruficornis
Appearance
Drymonia ruficornis | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Notodontidae |
Genus: | Drymonia |
Species: | D. ruficornis
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Binomial name | |
Drymonia ruficornis (Hufnagel, 1766)
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Drymonia ruficornis, the lunar marbled brown, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Central and Southern Europe and Anatolia.
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The wingspan is 35–40 mm. The fore wings are dark fuscous, almost blackish, with a short white line near the base; the central third is white clouded with the ground colour and limited by white edged black wavy lines. There is a black crescent just above the centre of the wing. Hind wings smoky grey with a pale curved line. Drymonia dodonaea is very similar.
The moth flies from April to June depending on the location.
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- South R. (1907) The Moths of the British Isles, (First Series), Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London & NY: 359 pp. online (as chaonia (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775))
External links
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- Lunar marbled brown on UKmoths
- Lepidoptera of Belgium Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Lepiforum.de
- Vlindernet (in Dutch)