Cryphia fraudatricula is a species of moth belonging to the family Noctuidae.

[1] Warren (1914) states M. fraudatricula Hbn.Forewing browner grey than Cryphia raptricula the lines black, conversely white-edged: the inner curved more vertically, connected with the outer by a thick black streak on sub-median fold .

followed by another beyond outer line; stigmata slightly darker than the ground; hindwing dark grey.

Widely spread throughout Europe.

simulatricula Guen., (now species Cryphia simulatricula (Guenée, 1852) ) queried from Florence by the author but referred by Staudinger to Castile and Aragon, is greyer, with the hindwing paler: the description is considerably like that of andalusiae (Duponchel) (now Bryophila ravula).