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Amphipoea oculea (Ear Moth)

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The Ear Moth (Amphipoea oculea) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in most of the Palearctic ecozone. See glossary for terms used The wingspan is 29–34 mm. Forewing pale or dark ferruginous brown; the veins brown; inner and outer lines double, brown, wide apart; the inner curvedoutwards between, and toothed inwards on, the veins; the outer with the inner arm thin, lunulate-dentate,the outer thick, continuous and parallel; a thick dark median shade running between the stigmata; submarginal line indistinct, waved, angled on vein 7, above which it is preceded by a dark costal patch; orbicular stigma rounded, orange, with a brown ring; reniform white, with the veins across it brown and containing on the discocellular a brown-outlined lunule, of which the centre is yellowish; the co
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1Biological Records Centre Database of Insects and their Food Plants
2Ecology of Commanster
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Species taxanomy provided by GBIF Secretariat (2022). GBIF Backbone Taxonomy. Checklist dataset https://doi.org/10.15468/39omei accessed via GBIF.org on 2023-06-13; License: CC BY 4.0