Oak Nycteoline

About the Oak Nycteoline

Nycteola revayana, the oak nycteoline, is a moth of the family Nolidae. The species was first described by Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in 1772. It is found from Europe and east across the Palearctic to Japan and India. It is a small species and somewhat resembles the Tortricidae. It used to be thought to be related to that family, and was known as the large marbled tortrix.

S. revayana Scop. Forewing ashy grey, dusted with darker, especially in costal half of median area; lines darker, double, but indistinct;the inner outcurved above and below middle, and angled outwards below vein 1; the outer irregularly waved and strongly indented on submedian fold; some faint dark spots indicate the submarginal line; hindwing pale greyish fuscous; — in the ab. fusculana Schmid the ground colour is dull dark brownish fuscous, with the black lines visible and a ferruginous spot representing the reniform stigma; from the middle of base an oblique black streak runs to lower end of the inner line; the submarginal spots are visible, and a row of small black marginal lunules; — ab. dilutana Hbn. has the ground colour dull grey or whitish grey, the median area brownish... Wikipedia →