the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > Heterocera > [noun] > family Noctuidae > member of subfamily Catocalinae (underwing) > catocala nupta (red-underwing) (3)
a large Eurasian noctuid moth, Catocala nupta, having red hindwings with broad black bands.
Originally: †the dark crimson underwing moth, Catocala sponsa (family Erebidae), of northern Europe and Asia, which has greyish-brown forewings…
Originally: †the red underwing moth, Catocala nupta (obsolete rare). In later use (with distinguishing word): either of two other North American…