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Grey Chi
Antitype chi
The grey chi (; Antitype chi) is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It is distributed throughout Europe, although it is not present in southern Spain and Greece, as well as northern Fennoscandia. It is also found across the Palearctic including Central Asia, to the Russian Far East but not in Japan.
This species has grey forewings speckled with black markings which vary in intensity (with the female generally more heavily marked than the male). There is usually a bold cross-shaped black mark in the centre of the wing which has been likened to the Greek letter chi (Χ) and gives the species its common name. The hindwings are white in the male, dirty grey in the female.
From the article Grey chi on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA), quoted section by section
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Artemisia - mugwort Convallaria - lily-of-the-valley Helianthus - Jerusalem artichoke Lactuca - lettuce Lathyrus - meadow vetchling Lychnis - campion Ribes - blackcurrant Rumex Salix - willow Saxifraga - saxifrage Sedum - stonecrop Silene - campion Sonchus - sow thistle Taraxacum - dandelion Triglochin Urtica - stinging nettle Viburnum - guelder rose See.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 146701.