| Tyta luctuosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Tyta Billberg, 1820 |
| Species: | T. luctuosa
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| Binomial name | |
| Tyta luctuosa (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Tyta luctuosa is a noctuid ("owlet") moth. Its common names include four-spotted moth and field bindweed moth. It is the only member of the genus Tyta, which belongs to the Metoponiinae subfamily. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. The genus was erected by Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820.
This moth is native to much of the Palearctic - most of Europe east to the Caucasus, Kazakhstan and from Siberia to China and south to North Africa. The adult moth is about eleven millimeters long and dark brown with one large white spot on each of its four wings.
- ^ Newman, Edward (1868). "The Life-history of Dysthymia luctuosa". The Entomologist. 4: 174 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (5 November 2004). "Dysthymia Newman, 1868". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. doi:10.5519/s93616qw. Retrieved 7 January 2020.