Jodia croceago

Jodia croceago, the orange upperwing, is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

Forewing dark yellow, thickly irrorated with orange red, in a few instances with blackish dusting; the costa with 4 white dashes in median area; lines generally marked with olive grey, sometimes blackish; inner line pale, waved, edged externally by darker, angled outwards in submedian interval; outer line at 3/4, curved, marked by dark veinspots; upper stigmata large, pale orange, with yellow annuli, the reniform 8-shaped and projecting outwards below cell; median shade broad, dark grey, running from inner margin to outer dark edge of reniform, along which it appears to run, its upper arm from costa above orbicular being more or less obscured and often obsolete, distinct only in the darker orange and black-speckled examples; submarginal line grey, sinuous; veins towards termen often darker; hindwing white, slightly pinkish-tinged, with cellspot and outer line; fringe white; — fulvago Esp.

nec L. (35 f) has the orange suffusion deeper, the dark irroration stronger, the upper arm of median shade well-marked; corsica Mab.

Larva yellowish grey dotted with dark red;the tubercles white; dorsal line pale, inconspicuous; on segments 4—11 a row of brown V-shaped marks; 11 th segment with a slight hump and two broad white spots behind it; head large, redbrown, pale-dotted.

The moth flies from October to November depending on the location.

Figs 3, young larva 3a, larvae after final moult