Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Lithophane semibrunnea | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Lithophane Rank Species | |
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Similar Lithophane, Lithophane ornitopus, Agrochola circellaris, Aporophyla, Tiliacea aurago | ||
Lithophane semibrunnea, the tawny pinion, is a moth of the Noctuoidea family. It is found in scattered populations in North Africa, central and southern Europe and Asia Minor.
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Technical description and variation
The wingspan is 40–44 mm. Forewing dull wood brown, the inner-marginal half suffused with black brown, blackest on inner margin and in outer half of submedian interspace; veins marked with black scales; lines indistinct; the outer marked by pairs of black dots on veins and a white crescent on submedian fold; the submarginal line by a slighter one; hindwing greyish brown, paler in male, with the terminal area darker.
Biology
The moth flies in late autumn.
Larva green; dorsal and subdorsal lines white; spiracular line broad, yellowish white, much varied with white dots and streaks below; head greenish; feeding on ash and other trees.The larvae mainly feed on Fraxinus excelsior.