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Pale Brindled Beauty

Lycia hirtaria

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Description:

The Brindled Beauty is a furry moth, which has brown wings with a brindled brown and white pattern which provides near-perfect camouflage on tree trunks and also gives the moth its name. The females have a pale yellow suffusion on the wings and the front edges of their forewings are paler. The moth has a wingspan of 4–5 cm.
The Brindled Beauty is nocturnal.

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