Eudonia murana

Eudonia murana
	Illustration from John Curtis's British Entomology Volume 6
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Subphylum:	Hexapoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Pyraloidea
(unranked):	Obtectomera
Family:	Crambidae
Subfamily:	Scopariinae
Genus:	Eudonia
Species:	E. murana
Binomial name
	Eudonia murana; (Curtis, 1827)
Synonyms
	Scoparia scoparia; Scoparia murana var. tuoniana Hoffmann, 1893; Scoparia pseudomurana Muller-Rutz 1825; Scoparia ranica Strand 1920;

The Scotch Gray or Wall Grey (Eudonia murana) is a moth of the Crambidae family. It is found in most of Europe.

The wingspan is 18-23 mm. Adults are on wing from June to August, possibly in two generations.

The larvae feed on various mosses growing on rocks and walls, including Hypnum cupressiformis, Dicranum scoparium, Bryum capillare and Grimmia pulvinata.

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