Colobochyla salicalis
Introduction '''''Colobochyla salicalis''''', the '''European lesser belle''' or '''lesser belle''', is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found  over almost all of the Palearctic.
Technical description and variation ''C. salicalis'' Schiff. (71 b). Forewing pale fuscous finely dusted with whitish, so as to appear grey; lines ferruginous edged with pale ochreous; the inner straight, the outer and subterminal somewhat curved inwards, the latter running into apex; hindwing pale fuscous, darker terminally, showing a faint subterminal line. ; the forms occurring in  Amurland and Japan are greyer or paler  that in Japan, —ab. ''cinerea'' Btlr., — greyer than the type; while the Amurland form — ab. ''laetalis'' Stgr. — is not only much paler but slightly smaller. Larva green, with the segmental incisions yellowish; the headalso green; spiracles black. The wingspan is 26–30 mm.
Biology Adults are on wing from May to July. There is one generation per year.The larvae feed on the young shoots and leaves of ''Populus tremula''.
References
External links * Lesser Belle on UKmoths* Fauna Europaea* Lepiforum.de