Burnet Companion

Euclidia glyphica · Order: Lepidoptera · Family: Erebidae

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The Burnet Companion moth has pale grey or brown forewings with distinct dark olive-brown shading and orange hindwings with dark veins. Its caterpillars feed on a variety of legumes and violets, and they are yellowish-brown or reddish-brown with a darker dorsal line.

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How to recognize it

Forewings are pale grey or uniform pale brown with dark olive-brown shadings, a pale oblique inner line followed by a brown band, and a whitish outer line with a brown band; hindwings are orange with dark veins, a fuscous base and inner margin, and a blackish submarginal band.

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Life cycle

Caterpillars are yellowish-brown or reddish-brown with a darker dorsal line; the head is yellowish-brown with two dark streaks.

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Where it comes from

Its native range matches its habitat: most of the Palearctic, from Ireland to Mongolia and Siberia, extending south to the Mediterranean and North Africa.

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Lookalikes

British forms include the uniformly dark brown ab. suffusa, the whitish-ochreous subterminal ab. marginata, the band-less underside ab. obsoleta, and the much darker ab. tristicula.

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