Ruby Tiger
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Phragmatobia fuliginosa
Fairly common & widespread in Britain, mainly nocturnal.
The Larva is light or dark grey with a black brown head. The entire body is covered with foxy red hairs.
The Larvae feeds on a number of herbaceous plants.
They have the thorax and forewings dark reddish brown with a blackish comma-shaped spot at the apex of the cell, edged with carmine.
Hindwings are carmine, more or less hyaline in the costal area, with more or less confluent black spots before the margin and at the apex of the cell.
Adults fly in a single generation during June & July.