Odontosia carmelita, the scarce prominent, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Eugenius Johann Christoph Esper in 1798. It is found in central Europe, ranging to Ireland and Finland in the north and Russia in the east.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Genus: | Odontosia |
| Species: | O. carmelita |
| Binomial name | |
| Odontosia carmelita (Esper, 1798) | |
The wingspan is 32–42 mm. The wing colour is graded in various shades of reddish brown or purplish grey. The forewings have faint points of paler colour (grey scales) and there is a distinct creamy patch on the front margin. The forewings are scalloped. The hindwing is paler with a dark brown anal patch. The thorax and body are dark brown.
The moths are on wing from March to May depending on the location.
References
Further reading
- South R. (1907) The Moths of the British Isles, (First Series), Frederick Warne & Co. Ltd., London & NY: 359 pp. online
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Odontosia carmelita.
- Kimber, Ian. "71.023 BF2010 Scarce Prominent Odontosia carmelita (Esper, [1798])". UKMoths. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
- Fauna Europaea
- Lepiforum e.V.