Callopistria latreillei

Callopistria latreillei, Latreille's Latin, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

[1] The habitat consists of rocky limestone slopes with deciduous woodland.

Forewing whitish, suffused with pale and dark grey, and in parts with blackish fuscous; inner and outer lines black edged with white; a prominent white spot before inner line on submedian fold; stigmata dark grey, with interrupted pale outlines; the reniform with a white dot beyond lower outer angle; submarginal line powdery white, interrupted by the olive or pinkish veins, and preceded by a pink wedge-shaped mark on vein 6; a lunulate white line close before termen; fringe olive yellow, chequered with white; hindwing fuscous, paler towards base in the male.

Larva redbrown, with a black dorsal triangle broadly edged with yellow on each segment; lateral lines yellowy with a black spot on each segment.

[3] The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ceterach officinarum, Cochlearia species and Adiantum capillus-veneris.