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Marbled beauty

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Forewing cream white with slaty-grey markings; orbicular and claviform (club shaped) stigmata confluent forming a figure of eight; hindwing whitish grey with cell spot and outer line dark grey. The species varies in opposite directions; either the dark scales of forewing are more or less obsolete and
299:. A significant proportion of individuals also have orange or yellow markings. The hindwings are whitish with a broad grey band at the margin. The adults fly at night in July and August and are attracted to light. 343:
Tutt the ground colour is white, the discoidal spots dark grey; four short dark dashes on costa at centre and a shade near apex, a short basal streak and a shade beneath the orbicular stigma are the only markings.
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Tutt; the dark specimens from the Pyrenees, referred here by Staudinger, are blacker than the very darkest British specimens, the whole hindwing being blackish also; in ab.
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are laid. The intensity of the markings vary considerably, with darker individuals predominating in urban areas, an example of
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of 22–30 mm. The forewings are white with dark grey cryptic markings, giving excellent camouflage against the
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is bluish grey with orange markings along the back. It feeds exclusively on lichens such as
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in 1766. It is an abundant species throughout most of Europe east to the
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Fuchs or the wing becomes wholly suffused with the dark tints ab.
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It is found across Europe, where it occurs as far south as
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Index

Bryophila domestica

Scientific classification
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Eukaryota
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Lepidoptera
Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Cryphia
Binomial name
Hufnagel
Synonyms
moth
Noctuidae
first described
Johann Siegfried Hufnagel
Urals
lichenivorous
Palearctic realm

wingspan
lichens
eggs
industrial melanism
Sicily
Gotland
Glossary of entomology terms

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