Clytie illunaris
Introduction '''''Clytie illunaris''''' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1813.It is found in France, Spain, North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.
Technical description and variation ''Clytie illunaris'' Hbn. (= ''gracilis'' B.-Haas.) (62 b). Forewing grey, or dark ash grey, or, more rarely, pale bone colour; inner and outer lines blackish, very seldom clear, often interrupted, or even altogether absent; submarginal line pale, only visible in the dark grey examples, always preceded by a black irregularly zigzag line, not reaching costa but blackest below it; orbicular stigma a faint dark dot; reniform a pale figure of 8, often divided into two spots; hindwing pale grey or bone colour, with a broad diffuse grey submarginal band, always darker and better defined in the female; the pale bone colour forms may be separated as ab. ''ossea'' ab. nov. (= ab. 2 Hmps.) (62 b); in ab. ''brunnea'' ab. nov. (= ab. 1 Hmps.) the ground colour of forewing is brown, the markings equally obsolete; while in ab. ''obscura'' ab. nov. (= ab. 3 Hmps.) the forewing, except at base of inner margin, is suffused with red brown, the subterminal line alone being visible.
Subspecies *''Clytie illunaris illunaris''*''Clytie illunaris legraini''
Biology There are multiple generations per year.The larvae feed on ''Tamarix'' species, including ''Tamarix gallica''.
References
External links ** ''Lepiforum e.V.''