| 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 |
| Binomial name | |
| Drymonia ruficornis (Hufnagel, 1766) | |
Drymonia ruficornis, the lunar marbled brown, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Central and Southern Europe and Anatolia.
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.
Thorax greyish brown to light grey, abdomen light. brown. Forewing dark grey-brown, the dark pre-and postdiscal zigzag bands as in querna but closer together, particularly at the hind margin, edged with white on the proximal and distal sides respectively; the median area between the transverse bands paler grey, bearing a sharp black luniform discal spot ; in the marginal area a whitish undulate line, which is frequently obsolete. Hindwing light grey-brown. In the southern districts, from southern Central Europe southward, a uniformly darker form predominates, grisea Turati (45e), m which the median area of the forewing is also darkened. Another form, which we call ab.lunula.nov . (45e), is intermediate between grisea and true chaonia [ruficornis] ; the whitish colour is restricted to the outer half of the median area beyond the cell and usually interrupted in the centre into a costal and a hindmarginal patch. This aberration likewise belongs to the southern districts. . Egg green. Larva pale green, with 4 equidistant chrome-yellow longitudinal lines, of which the 2 dorsal ones are sometimes whitish, the lateral ones on a level with the black-edged spiracles. Pupa black-brown with lighter segmental incisions; in the ground in a cell lined with silk. [1]
The moth flies from April to June depending on the location.
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