silver Y
Appearance
See also: silvery
English
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[edit]Noun
[edit]- Ant of species Autographa gamma of moths, having distinctive Y-shaped marks on their forewings.
- 1992, BBC Wildlife, volume 11, page 69:
- The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.
- 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
- There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
- 2016 July 11, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:
- Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.
Synonyms
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[edit]Autographa gamma
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References
[edit]- silver Y on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Autographa gamma on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Autographa gamma on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons