Drymonia ruficornis, the lunar marbled brown, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Central and Southern Europe and Anatolia.
| Drymonia ruficornis | |
|---|---|
| |
Scientific classification 
| |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Drymonia |
| Species: | D. ruficornis
|
| Binomial name | |
| Drymonia ruficornis (Hufnagel, 1766)
| |
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
editFurther 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
edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Drymonia ruficornis.
- Lunar marbled brown on UKmoths
- Lepidoptera of Belgium Archived 2017-03-08 at the Wayback Machine
- Lepiforum.de
- Vlindernet (in Dutch)
 | This article on a moth of the family Notodontidae is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |