Mottled Beauty

Alcis repandata

Fairly common throughout Britain.

The Larva is pale greenish-ochreous, brown-marked, sometimes suffused with dark grey, dusted with yellow.

The Larva feeds on the leaves and soft bark of a wide range of trees and other plants.

This is an extremely variable species, typically being buff or grey with black bars along the costa, but often with a broad blackish band across the forewings.

Meyrick describes it - The head is grey mixed with whitish and fuscous.

The hindwings are as the forewings, but the lines are less marked and regular. 

This Moth flies at night in June and July in the British Isles.

It is attracted to light.

This species is rather similar to Willow Beauty (Peribatodes rhomboidaria) and its congeners.