page_title: List of moths of Ireland
section_title: Family Noctuidae (owlet moths, cutworms, armyworms)
hierarchical_section_title: List of moths of Ireland / Suborder Glossata (moths and butterflies with a coilable proboscis) / Division Ditrysia (females have two genital openings) / Section Cossina / Superfamily Noctuoidea (owlet moths) / Family Noctuidae (owlet moths, cutworms, armyworms)
caption_attribution_description: Pentax K20D - 1/180 - f/16.0 - 113 mm - ISO:200 - Flash:On, Fired. Reino: Animalia Phylum: Arthropoda Clase: Insecta Orden: Lepidoptera Familia: Noctuidae Género: Cryphia Especie: C. muralis Nombre binomial: Nyctobrya (Cryphia) muralis Forster, 1771 Un lástima no haber podido ver a la polilla que es realmente bella. se alimenta de líquenes, especialmente de Diploica canescens A pity not being able to see the moth which is really beautiful. feeds on lichens, especially of Diploica canescens
context_page_description: Irish moths represent about 1,400 different types of moths. The moths and butterflies together make up the taxonomic order Lepidoptera.
  This is a list of moth species which have been recorded in Ireland.
context_section_description: Abrostola tripartita (Hufnagel, 1766) (spectacle)
  Abrostola triplasia (Linnaeus, 1758) (dark spectacle)
  Acronicta auricoma ([Denis and Schiffermüller], 1775) (scarce dagger)
  Acronicta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758) (the miller)
  Acronicta alni (Linnaeus, 1767) (alder moth)
  Acronicta psi (Linnaeus, 1758) (grey dagger)
  Acronicta euphorbiae (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (sweet gale moth)
  Acronicta menyanthidis (Esper, 1789) (light knot grass)
  Acronicta rumicis (Linnaeus, 1758) (knot grass)
  Actebia praecox (Linnaeus, 1758) (Portland moth)
  Agrochola lychnidis (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (beaded chestnut)
  Agrochola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758) (flounced chestnut)
  Agrochola lunosa (Haworth, 1809) (lunar underwing)
  Agrochola lota (Clerck, 1759) (red-line quaker)
  Agrochola macilenta (Hübner, 1809) (yellow-line quaker)
  Agrochola circellaris (Hufnagel, 1766) (the brick)
  Agrotis cinerea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (light feathered rustic)
  Agrotis clavis  (Hufnagel, 1766) (heart and club)
  Agrotis exclamationis (Linnaeus, 1758) (heart and dart)
  Agrotis ipsilon  (Hufnagel, 1766) (dark sword-grass, black cutworm, greasy cutworm, floodplain cutworm)
  Agrotis ripae Hübner, 1823 (sand dart)
  Agrotis segetum (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (turnip moth)
  Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824) (crescent dart)
  Agrotis vestigialis (Hufnagel, 1766) (archer's dart)
  Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758) (green-brindled crescent)
  Amphipoea crinanensis (Burrows, 1908) (Crinan ear)
  Amphipoea fucosa (Freyer, 1830) (saltern ear moth)
  Amphipoea lucens (Freyer, 1845) (large ear moth)
  Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761) (ear moth)
  Amphipyra berbera Rungs, 1949 (Svensson's copper underwing)
  Amphipyra pyramidea (Linnaeus, 1758) (copper underwing, humped green fruitworm, pyramidal green fruitworm)
  Amphipyra tragopoginis (Clerck, 1759) (mouse moth)
  Anaplectoides prasina (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (green arches)
  Anarta myrtilli (Linnaeus, 1761) (beautiful yellow underwing)
  Anarta trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766) (nutmeg moth, clover cutworm)
  Antitype chi (Linnaeus, 1758) (grey chi)
  Apamea anceps (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (large nutmeg)
  Apamea crenata (Hufnagel, 1766) (clouded brindle)
  Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809)
  Apamea furva  (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (confused moth)
  Apamea lithoxylaea  (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (light arches)
  Apamea monoglypha (Hufnagel, 1766) (dark arches)
  Apamea oblonga (Haworth, 1809) (crescent striped moth)
  Apamea remissa (Hübner, 1809) (dusky brocade)
  Apamea scolopacina (Esper, 1788) (slender brindle)
  Apamea sordens (Hufnagel, 1766) (rustic shoulder-knot, bordered apamea)
  Apamea sublustris (Esper, 1788) (reddish light arches)
  Apamea unanimis (Hübner, 1813) (small clouded brindle)
  Aporophyla australis (Boisduval, 1829) (feathered brindle)
  Aporophyla lueneburgensis (Freyer, 1848) (northern deep-brown dart)
  Aporophyla nigra (Haworth, 1809) (black rustic)
  Fissipunctia ypsillon (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (dingy shears)
  Archanara dissoluta(Treitschke, 1825)  (brown-veined wainscot moth)
  Asteroscopus sphinx (Hufnagel, 1766) (sprawler)
  Atethmia centrago (Haworth, 1809) (centre-barred sallow)
  Autographa bractea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) (gold spangle)
  Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758) (silver Y)
  Autographa jota (Linnaeus, 1758) (plain golden Y)
  Autographa pulchrina (Haworth, 1809) (beautiful golden Y)
  Axylia putris (Linnaeus, 1761) (the flame)
  Brachylomia viminalis (Fabricius, 1776) (minor shoulder-knot)
  Cryphia domestica (Hufnagel, 1766) (marbled beauty)
  Calamia tridens (Hufnagel, 1766) (Burren green)
  Caradrina morpheus(Hufnagel, 1766) (mottled rustic)
  Paradrina clavipalpis Scopoli, 1763 (pale mottled willow)
  Celaena haworthii (Curtis, 1829) (Haworth's minor)
  Ceramica pisi (Linnaeus, 1758) (broom moth)
  Cerapteryx graminis (Linnaeus, 1758) (antler moth)
  Cerastis rubricosa(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)  (red chestnut)
  Charanyca trigrammica (Hufnagel, 1766) (treble lines)
  Rusina ferruginea (Esper, 1785) (brown rustic)
  Coenobia rufa (Haworth, 1809) (small rufous)
  Colocasia coryli (Linnaeus, 1758) (nut-tree tussock)
  Conisania andalusica (Stau
caption: Marbled green caterpillar
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