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The Frosted orange moth (''Gortyna flavago'') is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Europe, Armenia, Syria and East through the Palearctic to West Siberia.〔(Colour Atlas of Siberian Lepidoptera )〕 Also in Algeria. . The Frosted Orange is a nightflying species whose orange and brown speckled wings allow for perfect camouflage against autumn leaves in the daytime. It is attracted to light and does not come to flowers, and its caterpillars inhabit the root-stems of the species' foodplants. ==Technical Description and variation== :''See glossary for terms used'' Wingspan ranges from 3 to 4.3 cm, Forewing yellow,thickly dusted with bright ferruginous, the space between subbasal and inner lines and that between outer and submarginal lines, filled up with dull liver-brown; the lines and veins finely red-brown; all 3 stigmata pale yellow with darker centres and brown outlines, the reniform containing an outlined lunule; submarginal line yellowish ending in a yellow apical blotch: hindwing dirty luteous, with veins and cellspot, the outer line and a submarginal cloud grey:- in ab. ''suffusa'' ab. nov. () the forewing is wholly suffused with ferruginous; - ''cinarea'' Goosens from Algeria is pale yellow or reddish grey, with a dark patch between the stigmata, which are almost obsolete: the terminal area of ground colour or violet brown without any pale apical patch: hindwing without markings, whitish grey.〔Seitz, A. Ed., 1914 ''Die Großschmetterlinge der Erde'', Verlag Alfred Kernen, Stuttgart Band 3: Abt. 1, Die Großschmetterlinge des palaearktischen Faunengebietes, Die palaearktischen eulenartigen Nachtfalter, 1914〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frosted orange moth」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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