Red underwing

Red underwing
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Catocala
Species:
C. nupta
Binomial name
Catocala nupta
Synonyms
  • Phalaena nupta Linnaeus, 1767
  • Catocala unicuba Walker, [1858]
  • Catocala concubia Walker, [1858]
  • Catocala nozawae Matsumura, 1911

The red underwing (Catocala nupta) is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1767 12th edition of Systema Naturae.[1]

This is a large (80 mm wingspan) nocturnal Palearctic (including Europe) species which, like most noctuids, is above and with the wings closed drably coloured to aid concealment during the day. It flies in August and September, and comes freely to both light and sugar.

Mounted
Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 5
  1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Catocala nupta (Linnaeus 1767)". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on 15 March 2016.