Flounced Rustic

Luperina testacea

Common species in England and Wales, but more local in Scotland and Ireland, mainly nocturnal.

Larva dirty whiteish, without lines; head and plates brown.

The Larvae feed underground in the bases of grass stems and amongst the roots.

Forewing light to dark fuscous, often with a faint ochreous or brownish tinge; the veins darker; inner and outer lines double, filled in with pale, but varying in intensity; claviform stigma of the ground colour with black line; orbicular and reniform paler with darker centres.

The Moth flies in one generation from mid-July to early October.