| Leucania comma | (Linnaeus, 1761) |
TL: Sweden (2100 m.)
Forewing drab grey, suffused, except along costa and inner margin, and in an oblique fascia-form submarginal area, with blackish, the veins and folds remaining pale; a whitish lunule on discocellular: the pale submarginal fascia externally throw\'s off pale teeth along the veins to termen, the wedgeshaped intervals being filled in with black; a long black streak from base below cell: median vein white, with only a small white spot at end of cell and a minute black point above it: veins whitish with black terminal streaks in the intervals.
Hindwing dark greyish, fuscous.
Hindwing dark greyish, fuscous.
Habitat
- Glades
- Meadows
Similar species
34-42 mm
- Local names
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Language Vernacular name 
ČeskyPlavokřídlec čárkovaný 
DanskKommaugle 
DeutschBerg-Graseule DeutschKomma-Graseule 
EnglishShoulder-striped Wainscot 
FrançaisComma blanc 
LietuviųTamsiajuostis pievinukas 
NederlandsKomma uil NederlandsKomma-uil 
NorskKommagressfly 
SlovenčinaMora čiarkovaná 
SuomeksiJuomuolkiyökkönen 
SvenskaKommatecknat gräsfly 
РусскийСовка-запятая
- Primary hostplants
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Family Latin name Vernacular name Poaceae Dactylis glomerata Cocksfoot Poaceae Deschampsia flexuosa Wavy Hair-grass Poaceae Festuca Fescue Poaceae Gramineae Grass - Secondary hostplants
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Family Latin name Vernacular name Poaceae Gramineae Grass
- Synonyms and other combinations
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Latin name Author Mythimna comma Linnaeus, 1761
- Links
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Language Website Authors Butterflies and Moths of North America Butterflies and Moths of Northern Ireland Robert Thompson, Brian Nelson Lepidoptera and their ecology Wolfgang Wagner Lepidoptera of Crimea Владимир Савчук Lepiforum e. V. Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa Paolo Mazzei Moths and butterflies of Sweden Magnus Unger Svenska fjärilar Bert Gustafsson UK Moths Ian Kimber
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