{{italic title}} {{short description|Species of moth}} {{Speciesbox | name =''Syngrapha ain'' | image = Noctuidae - Syngrapha ain.JPG | image_caption = ''Syngrapha ain'', feeding | image2 = Syngrapha ain.jpg | image2_caption = Mounted specimen | taxon = Syngrapha ain | authority = (Hochenwarth, 1785) | synonyms = }} '''''Syngrapha ain''''' is a moth of the family Noctuidae.

==Subspecies== * ''Syngrapha ain ain'' Ronkay, Ronkay & Behounek, 2008 * ''Syngrapha ain persibirica'' Ronkay, Ronkay, Behounek & Mikkola, 2008<ref name=fc>[http://ftp.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/plusiinae/syngrapha/index.html Funet]</ref> [[File: Val di Rhemes, Val d'Aosta, Italy.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Habitat of ''S. ain'' in the Alps: Rhêmes Valley, Valle d’Aosta, abt. 1800 m. a.s.l.]]

==Description== Wingspan 34–40&nbsp;mm. Ground color of forewing upperside gray-brown, with strongly serrated wavy lines and a distinctive silvery white mark resembling letter gamma. Hindwings yellow, with a wide black border. Thorax hairy with some tufts of hair. Proboscis well developed.

''S. ain'' is a daytime flier, on the wings from July to August, depending on location. Larvae green, with yellowish longitudinal and double dorsal lines. They feed on ''Larix'' species.<ref name=fb>Paolo Mazzei, Daniel Morel, Raniero Panfili [http://www.leps.it/indexjs.htm?SpeciesPages/SyngrAin.htm Moths and Butterflies of Europe and North Africa]</ref> Pupa dark brown.

==Distribution and habitat== ''S. ain'' is a Eurasiatic species, found locally in subalpine and alpine larch forests of the Alps, northern Carpathians (Krkonoše and Tatra Mts., sporadically also in South Slovakia and North Hungary), then eastwards in southern Ural Mts. and the south of Siberia. In the Far East, it inhabits the Korean Peninsula as well as Japan.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20141014214402/http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=449599 Fauna Europaea]</ref><ref name=fc/>

==References== {{Reflist}}

==External links== {{Commonscat}} * [http://eol.org/pages/551483/details EoL] * [http://www.pyrgus.de/Syngrapha_ain_en.html Lepidoptera and their ecology (Pyrgus.de)] * [http://www.lepiforum.de/lepiwiki.pl?Syngrapha_Ain Lepiforum.de]

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Category:Plusiinae Category:Moths of Asia Category:Moths of Europe Category:Moths described in 1785

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