Catocala coniuncta

Catocala coniuncta is a circum-Mediterranean species of moth whose range extends across southern Europe, North Africa and extending to the Middle East. Its species name has for a long time been misspelled "conjuncta"; this was only corrected in 2010.^{[citation needed]}

Minsmere crimson underwing
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Catocala
Species:	C. coniuncta
Binomial name
Catocala coniuncta (Esper, 1787)
Synonyms
Catocala conjuncta (lapsus) Phalaena coniuncta Esper, 1787 Noctua conjuga Hübner, [1803] Catocala conjuncta vivida Warren, 1913 Catocala conjuncta perrettei Seyer, 1976

Like other related species C. coniuncta has mottled brown fore-wings and crimson-red hind-wings with a black central line. The species differs from its European congeners in the shape of the post-median line on the fore-wing and the straighter black line on the hind-wings. The larvae feed on holm oak (Quercus ilex).

Extra-limitally, C. coniuncta has occurred just once in Britain, being found at light by Robin Harvey at the RSPB Minsmere reserve on the Suffolk coast on 14 September 2004.^[1] Following this record the English name Minsmere crimson underwing has been adopted.