Insecta, Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Scoliopteryx libatrix (Linnč, 1758) - It is a subtroglophile butterfly taht we can often find on the walls of natural and artificial cavities of all central Europe and Asia and in the mediterranean region, north-Africa included. It spend the light hours of the day and all the winter in the caves where it stays absolutely motionless on the walls, but more frequently on the vault of the tunnels. His livery is very elegant with colors from the yellow to the pinkish and characteristic white ornaments. Together to other Lepidoptera and insects it contribute to bring food resources in the hypogean environment where often these Arthropods die, and their dead bodies are food for more specialized organisms or for the Fungi. In Piemonte the author found these butterflies in many cavities, also particularly cold, at an altitude of about 2000 m above the sea level. (Real size: about 25 mm).

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