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Hebrew Character is a moth species, ''Orthosia gothica'', of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout Europe. The forewings of this species are greyish to rufous brown. Typically these are marked with a black mark shaped like the Hebrew letter Nun נ). This is similar to the markings of the Setaceous Hebrew Character although the two species are not closely related. In this species this mark is sometimes split in two or even absent. The hindwings are grey. ==Technical Description and variation== :''See glossary for terms used'' The wingspan is 30–40 mm. Forewing sandy rufous, black-speckled, median area generally deeper rufous: lines browner, Forewing purplish red-brown; the lines pale, ill-defined, except by black spots at costa; the cell black; stigmata pale and large; claviform connected with outer line by a black bar; above which the base of vein 2 is often surrounded with rufous; hindwing fuscous.The size of the orbicular stigma is variable, and the amount and shape of the black filling in of the cell is determined by this variation ; — in ab. ''gothicina'' H.-Sch. the black markings are replaced by olive brown or rufous; it is a northern form, occurring in Scotland, Scandinavia, and Finland, and in the Tarbagatai Mountains: — ''askoldensis'' Stgr. (full species ''Orthosia askoldensis'' ) from Amurland and Japan has a more violet grey ground colour; ab. ''pallida'' Tutt (22b) has a pale whitish ochreous ground colour; — in ''rufescens'' Tutt the reddish tint is predominant: - in ''rufa'' Tutt the ground colour is red; — and in ''brunnea'' Tutt the rufous tints give place to purplish brown.〔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「Hebrew Character」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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