| Brindled Beauty | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Genus: | Lycia |
| Species: | L. hirtaria |
| Binomial name | |
| Lycia hirtaria (Clerck, 1759 |
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The Brindled Beauty (Lycia hirtaria) is a small Palearctic moth.
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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.[1]
The Brindled Beauty is nocturnal.
The caterpillar of the Brindled Beauty ranges from greyish-green to brown in colour and has black and yellow spots.[1]
The caterpillar feeds on broad-leaved trees.[1]