silver Y

See also: silvery

English

Alternative forms

• silver-y

Noun

silver Y (plural silver Ys)

1. Ant of species Autographa gamma of moths, having distinctive Y-shaped marks on their forewings.
   • 1992, BBC Wildlife, volume 11, page 69:

     The differences between the silver-y moth and its two newly described siblings – Autographa messmeri and A. voelkeri – are rather less obvious.

   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

   • 2016 July 11, Patrick Barkham, The Guardian:

     Ronaldo’s moth was one of thousands of Silver Y moths, a migratory species that moves north through Europe each summer in search of new breeding grounds, returning south in the autumn.

Synonyms

• Y-moth

Translations

Autographa gamma

• Danish: gammaugle c
• Finnish: gammayökkönen (fi)
• Swedish: gammafly n

References

• silver Y on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Autographa gamma on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Autographa gamma on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• slivery