Cilix glaucata

Cilix glaucata, the Chinese character, is a moth of the family Drepanidae.

It was first described by the Italian physician and naturalist, Giovanni Antonio Scopoli in his 1763 Entomologia Carniolica.

The moth flies from April to August depending on the location.

Cilix glaucata lives on sunny and warm forest edges, slopes and hedges, on bushy dry grasslands and heaths, but also in parks.

The thorax is clearly thickened and the end of the abdomen is extended to a narrow tip.

On this Cilix glaucata moth's wing, the silvery scales may — by pareidolia — look a bit like the Chinese character (radical 46), meaning "mountain".