Grey Shoulder-knot

Lithophane ornitopus lactipennis

Classification

Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae

Rhizolitha is a junior synonym of the moth genus Lithophane Hübner, 1821, in the family Noctuidae. It was described by the English entomologist John Curtis in 1830, in his work A Guide to an Arrangement of British Insects (fascicle 5, p. 149), with the type species Noctua rhizolitha ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775), now treated as a synonym of Lithophane ornitopus (Hufnagel, 1766), the grey shoulder-knot moth.

Distribution

Grey Shoulder-knot — (c) ingridaltmann, some rights reserved (CC BY) · CC-BY

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Countries in the Picchu catalog

United Kingdom · 32

Sources and credits

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Grey Shoulder-knot

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