Hoplodrina superstes, also known as the powdered rustic, is a moth of the family Noctuidae, first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
The forewings are yellowish brown to light grey brown and pale rufous grey with black atoms (scales); inner and outer lines blackish, the inner obliquely waved and dentate inwards, the outer strongly dentate, the teeth forming a row of points on the veins; submarginal pale, with brown shading before it; orbicular and reniform large, brownish, with pale rings; hindwing dull whitish, the veins and terminal area brownish.
Larva grey, dorsal line dark; lateral stripes pale, with oblique streaks between them.
[2] There is one generation per year in the northern part of the range, with adults on wing in June ando July.
Adults of the second generation are on wing from August and September.