The Bird’s Wing (Dypterygia scabriuscula) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species can be found in Europe and the western Palearctic (Asia Minor and Armenia).

Dypterygia scabriuscula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Dypterygia
Species:	D. scabriuscula
Binomial name
Dypterygia scabriuscula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Technical description and variation

D. scabriuscula L. (= pinastri L., tripterygia Esp.) (38 f). Forewing brown black; the inner margin narrowly and the postmedian space below vein 3 whitish, with the veins and intervals marked with pale olive brown, often some pale brown suffusion also about vein 6; a fine black streak from base below cell;the lines and edges of stigmata black; inner line with 4 angles outwards, that below vein 1 long and acute; outer line oblique outwards to 5, forming a projection between 4 and 5, then insinuate to middle of inner margin: claviform stigma long and narrow; orbicular oval, flattened, sometimes touching the large reniform: terminal area with black streaks between veins; subterminal line visible only below vein 2, the anal angle beyond it blackish; hindwing fuscous. Larva redbrown, marbled and dotted with darker; dorsal line finely white with brown edge; lateral lines broadly pale, dark-edged above, crossed by a series of oblique brown stripes; head brown with black streaks. [1] The wingspan is 32–37 mm.

Biology

The moths flies from April to August depending on the location.

The caterpillars feed on Rumex and Polygonum aviculare.

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Dypterygia scabriuscula.

• Bird’s Wing on UKmoths
• Fauna Europaea
• Lepiforum.de
• Vlindernet.nl (in Dutch)

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