About: Peridea anceps

Peridea anceps, the great prominent, is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Johann August Ephraim Goeze in 1781. It is found in central and southern Europe and North Africa. The wingspan is 50–65 mm. The antennae are almost half as long as the forewing, narrowly feathered in the male and wire-shaped in the female. The body is cylindrical, and covered with dark brownish hairs. The thorax may have slightly different drawings but the middle part is slightly darker and warmer brown than the rest. The forewing is oblong and narrow, almost oval, with a wide "tooth" of backward-pointing hairs approximately in the middle of the back edge. It is yellowish grey with four more or less distinct narrow transverse bands, the two innermost ones being dark and the two outermost light. The