Cryphia fraudatricula

Cryphia fraudatricula is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae.[1]

Cryphia fraudatricula
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Cryphia
Species:
C. fraudatricula
Binomial name
Cryphia fraudatricula
(Hubner, 1803)

Description

Warren (1914) states M. fraudatricula Hbn.Forewing browner grey than Cryphia raptricula the lines black, conversely white-edged: the inner curved more vertically, connected with the outer by a thick black streak on sub-median fold . followed by another beyond outer line ; stigmata slightly darker than the ground ; hindwing dark grey. Widely spread throughout Europe. — The ab. simulatricula Guen., (now species Cryphia simulatricula (Guenée, 1852) ) queried from Florence by the author but referred by Staudinger to Castile and Aragon, is greyer, with the hindwing paler: the description is considerably like that of andalusiae (Duponchel) (now Bryophila ravula). [2]

It is native to Southern Europe.[1]

References
  1. "Cryphia fraudatricula (Hubner, 1803)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 16 February 2021.
  2. Warren, W. in Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde, Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.
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