TL: Europa
Forewing purplish grey or purplish fuscous with a leaden gloss; costal area at middle ochreous, merged with the bluntly triangular orbicular stigma: cell, a submedian basal blotch, and costal spot before apex purplish black; claviform stigma minute; reniform large, the lower lobe purplish; hindwing ochreous whitish, in female with the termen broadly fuscous.
Habitat
- Farmland
- Meadows
35-42 mm
Regional distr. - legend
- Local names
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Language Vernacular name 
ČeskyOsenice černé C 
DanskDet sorte c 
DeutschSchwarzes C 
Eesti keelNiidu-kidaöölane 
EnglishSetaceous Hebrew Character EnglishSeteceous Hebrew Character 
English (US)Lesser Black-letter Dart 
FrançaisC-noir 
ÍslenskaNetluygla 
LietuviųGelsvadėmis dirvinukas 
MagyarC-betűs fűbagoly 
NederlandsZwarte c uil NederlandsZwarte-c-uil 
NorskC-tegnet bakkefly 
PolskiRolnica panewka 
SlovenčinaMora čiernosŕpková 
SuomeksiKilpiruuniyökkönen 
SvenskaC-tecknat jordfly 
РусскийСовка с-черное 
УкраїнськаСовка с-чорне 
中文八字地老虎 
日本語シロモンヤガ 
한국어씨자무늬거세미밤나방 
العربيةغسقية زنجية
- Primary hostplants
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Family Latin name Vernacular name Caryophyllaceae Stellaria media Common Chickweed Fabaceae Trifolium Clover Onagraceae Chamerion angustifolium Resebay Willowherb
- Subspecies
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Species Author Xestia (Megasema) c-nigrum c-nigrum (Linnaeus, 1758) Xestia (Megasema) c-nigrum deraiota (Hampson, 1902)
- Links
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Language Website Authors Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland Robert Thompson, Brian Nelson Insekten Box Wilfried Funk Lepidoptera and their ecology Wolfgang Wagner Lepiforum e. V. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa Paolo Mazzei Moths and butterflies of Sweden Magnus Unger Moths of India North American Moth Photographers Group Pacific Northwest Moths Svenska fjärilar Bert Gustafsson UK Moths Ian Kimber
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