Cryphia fraudatricula


Cryphia fraudatricula is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae.

Description

Warren states
M. fraudatricula Hbn.Forewing browner grey than Cryphia raptricula the lines black, conversely white-edged: the inner curved more vertically, connected with the outer by a thick black streak on sub-median fold. followed by another beyond outer line; stigmata slightly darker than the ground; hindwing dark grey. Widely spread throughout Europe. — The ab. simulatricula Guen., queried from Florence by
the author but referred by Staudinger to Castile and Aragon, is greyer, with the hindwing paler: the description is considerably like that of andalusiae .
It is native to Southern Europe.